Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year Yant was going strong; he had raked in $242,000 and still had considerable acreage left. But the customers finally got restive. Con-Man Yant ended up doing two years at San Quentin...
Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey pushed ahead the frontiers of education. On a month's visit to San Quentin prison to gather data on sex life in jail, he helped pass the time by lecturing the inmates on sex life outside...
Enemies. A police captain named Earle Kynette and another officer were sent to San Quentin for the crime, and the administration of Mayor Frank Shaw was doomed. Bowron was pressed into service as a reform candidate; he was elected on his 16th wedding anniversary...
...clipping from the New York Times, he bellowed to one writer in his best Front Page manner: "Follow this up!" Summoning another staffer whose bags were packed for a trip to Europe to do a series of articles, Ruppel told him abruptly: "Your junket is off." Big Quentin Reynolds, a top Collier's drawing card, emerged pink and piqued from a personal audience. Several freelance writers who brought in stories assigned by the pre-Ruppel regime got quick service; their pieces were rejected on the spot...
...Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...