Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Windsor people hastily set down their drinks, burst into tears, got up and scrambled for the doors. Housewives in Richmond, shopping on busy George Street, suddenly scattered like scared hens, lost their shopping lists, staggered tearfully home with nothing for their families' dinners. Near London's Liverpool Street Station, in the rush hour, weeping barmaids tried to serve hundreds of customers who lurched in as though half-seas over. They weren't, but they were gassed up. The A.R.P. was teaching the public a lesson. They had not been carrying their gas masks, and now tear...
...State penitentiary at Richmond, Va., young Odell Waller awaited death this week by electrocution. A Negro sharecropper, guilty of murdering a white man, Waller would have died long since if his case had not become a cause...
Virginians were vexed over "outsiders sticking their noses into Virginia's affairs." But some were also deeply disturbed over Virginia justice. Finerty was joined before the Circuit Court of Appeals by Edmund Preston, Richmond attorney, member of the State's leading law firm. Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr. granted stay after stay. The Richmond Times-Dispatch declared: "Add the fact that we are in a war for survival in which we are depending heavily for victory on the colored races, and the significance of the Waller case becomes clearer...
Bowdoin Prizes for dissertations in English and Greek and Latin were awarded as follows: $300 to Walter J. Bate (Proctor), of Richmond, Ind., for an essay "A Rejection of Intensity: The Prosodic Development of Keats from May to September, 1819"; $300 to Stephen E. Whicher (Teaching Fellow), of Amherst, Mass., for an essay entitled "Emerson and the Divinity School Address"; $300 to John E. Sawyer, third-year graduate student, of Worcester, Mass., for an essay "Pierre Laval: The Diplomacy of Disaster 1934-1936"; $300 to Edwin Hewitt (Teaching Fellow), of Chicago, III., for an essay "On a Novel Type...
...More doubling up on the way to church. In Richmond, Va. motorists have put a sticker on their windshields: "I'm going to St. Mark's. Can I give you a lift...