Word: oldham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons election at Oldham, he defeated Winston Churchill...
...mile relay--Won by Yale (Oldham, Allman, Dauch, Hary). Time--8:46.2 (Harvard did not start team...
Hold, Enough! In Oldham, England, Actor Antony Oakley, playing Macduff in Macbeth, charged with his dagger, laid on with such vigor that Macbeth was laid up with a five-inch abdominal wound. In Toulon, France, Baritone Fernand Lagarde, carried away by the third act stabbing scene in Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles, was carried offstage with a two-inch abdominal wound...
Holiday Business. In Detroit, 225-pound union President Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...
...minority report deplored the proposal: ". . . We cannot believe that it is right in the sight of God and in loyalty to His Church to ask the Church to study . . . what we are profoundly convinced is repugnant to the mind of Christ." One member, the Rt. Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, bishop of Albany, N.Y., signed neither report...