Word: norfolkers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Norfolk state Prison debating team won a two-to-one decision over a pair of Law School students Sunday on the resolution "The House regrets the Advance of the Welfare State." The prison team supported the resolution...
...trip to Richmond, Va. last spring, Edmund R. Dewing, the district attorney of Norfolk County, Mass., heard about Lady Wonder, the "Talking Horse." He drove out to Lady Wonder's stable, paid her mistress one dollar (for three questions) and was escorted into the Presence...
...comparable concession to austerity was made last week by England's Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, in charge of arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. At previous coronations, it was mandatory for peers attending the ceremony to wear crimson robes trimmed with ermine. This time, peers not taking direct part in the ceremonies may wear merely the mantle of an order of knighthood over formal evening dress (knee breeches optional). The wives of peers (below the rank of countess) may also come in ordinary evening dresses...
Frederick R. Driscoll, Chairman of the State Transfer Board, explained that every man at State Prison and Concord is screened at one time or another by his board for transfer to Norfolk. Originally, he said, it was hoped that all transfers would be excellent rehabilitation prospects. However because of overcrowding at the other institutions, especially Charlestown, the colony has had to receive well-behaved inmates who may have serious prior records and are frequently not the best prospects for satisfactory rehabilitation...
Driscoll explained that no drug addicts, homesexuals, escape risks, or men with serious disciplinary records are ever sent to Norfolk...