Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II began to inundate the world, he began to think about west ern civilization. He evolved a panacea, full of the gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...
...Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation. Onetime holder of national tennis championships in municipal contests, bridge tournament partner of her famed husband (now with OPM in Washington), she said she was having the time of her life as a factory hand, was spending all her wages on defense bonds...
Society Note: Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain's No. 1 Fascist, will join his wife, Lady Diana, in new, enlarged jail quarters this week. Lady Diana has done the decorating job, laying carpets and fluffing pillows, and has hired two women prisoners as servants. The nest: an innovation at Holloway Prison-"flatlets" of two adjoining cells for husbands and wives...
...plane rocked a merchantman with bombs, Britain's only seagoing woman engineer ran the engine room singlehanded, haloed with escaping steam and showered with black fuel oil. So George VI presented the Most. Excellent Order of the British Empire to gaunt, nerveless Victoria Drummond, 42. a British Fascist Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone...
Last week the court awarded the claimants ?14,700 salvage money: ?2,000 of it to Skipper Hawkins; ?1,000 to the estate of Joe Boyle. Another ?1,000 went to 26-year-old Oswald Ross Preston, U. S. volunteer to the R. A. F., now on duty with the Eagle Squadron, because he played a "magnificent" part when the battle started. To his prize money the crew added the tattered red ensign of the San Demetrio, never hauled down till she reached the Clyde...