Word: olney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away on the Olney, Md. farm, were the two babies: two-year-old Harold McEwen Ickes, a beautiful, healthy, roto-section child, with big blue eyes and golden curls; and little four-months-old Jane, who looks like any four-months-old Jane. Without a care or worry the Ickes settled down to vacation...
Austin scholarship to Lou B. Voigt, of Olney, Illinois...
Distances have narrowed since 1895, when U. S. Secretary of State Richard Olney declared that 3,000 miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and inexpedient." A tacit London-Washington Axis is already a fact. Many British subjects, and not so many U. S. citizens, hope the Axis may eventually become a Union. Clarence K. ("Union Now") Streit, who once advocated union of all the democracies, now advocates union of the U. S. and the British Empire, about all that are left...