Word: perth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonesome flat on Perth's gloomy Abbott Street last week, Bill Hutton said of the sentence: "It's an outrage. These men should be properly punished...
After the excitement of a stretch in the Gordon Highlanders during World War I, life in Scotland's coastal town of Perth seemed a dull prospect to young Bill Hutton. Instead of going home at war's end, he signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young...
Break for a Girl. Eileen has not forgotten how she got her start. Years ago, when she was in a Perth convent, a priest brought Composer-Pianist Percy Grainger to hear her play. Grainger, in turn, fetched the great German Pianist Wilhelm Back-haus, who was touring Australia. When Backhaus said that she must go to Leipzig to study, the miners passed the hat to send her. Now Eileen is looking around for another talented Australian girl who needs help. Says she: "This is a man's world, and a girl needs every break...
...German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been held at Perth, Ont.), he came back, married a divorcee and settled down in the starchy provincialism of Canada's capital...
...Guam to the Azores. 5. San Francisco to Perth...