Word: outlawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trelawny and Byron decided to liberate Greece. But when Byron died at Missolonghi, Trelawny was not with him. He had met another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...
...declared in principle that draftees and one-year volunteers can vote in person or by absentee ballot. But the States determine who can vote; Congress actually has nothing to say about it. Twenty-nine States forbid soldiers on active duty to vote while 19 others* restrict but do not outlaw balloting by soldiers...
...Representative Martin Dies, on a trail he has been snuffing up a long time, proposed legislation to outlaw both the Communist Party and the Bund, fix heavy penalties for membership, suggested the President create a council of home defense to coordinate the FBI, the Secret Service, Army and Navy Intelligence...
...Dark Command (Republic) continues Hollywood's efforts to vary the pattern of its western thrillers by substituting the American Civil War for Indian raids. Last installment was Warner's Virginia City. This one takes place in Lawrence, Kans., circa 1860, spectacularly chronicles the misdeeds of Outlaw Quantrell, Kansas' Civil War guerrilla, here thinly disguised as Outlaw Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon). Thrilling shot: the wagon, in which Claire Trevor, Roy Rogers and John Wayne are escaping the bad man, hurtling at breakneck speed off a high Kansas cliff...