Word: rae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death in a Flue. Not all masters were so "humane." Phillips cites, among many others, the case of Master Joseph Rae who, after an eleven-year-old apprentice had tried for five hours to free himself from a narrow flue, "sent another apprentice up the flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left...
...Jockey Rae Johnstone is a sunken-cheeked little man of 43 with cold grey eyes. French horseplayers call him "the Crocodile" ("he comes from behind and eats them up"). He never looked more carnivorous than he did last week at Longchamps, as he trailed the leaders around the turn, and then crocodiled ahead to win France's racing classic-the Grand Prix de Paris-by a length and a half...
...Said Chicago OPAdministrator Rae E. Walters (TIME Letters, March 18): "We . . . were surprised and pleased to find TIME so ably presenting both sides of the story of inflation...
...RAE E. WALTERS
...NINA RAE CLEVELAND San Francisco...