Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, he ran into a political stone wall. No official of the police or medical examiner's office would talk. Angrily, Brunt hustled to the office of Mayor Joseph Clark, charged that covering up the scandal "would cost the Democrats the election." Then Brunt went after District Attorney Samuel Dash, convinced him also that the cover-up would be a hot political issue. Two days later, Dash finally made it official: Doris Oestreicher died from an "illegal operation...
Into the youngest class of the Waterloo tontine went the children of Samuel Car boy and George Grace, two partners whose business marriage has ended in divorce owing to incompatibility. Alongside these wealthy kids, the daughter of Carboy's groom, Nell Groody, also joins. Then Author Costain relentlessly chronicles the lives of these participants, down to the tonteeniest detail. Carboy's daughter works her way through a series of polite flirtations (not a bedroom scene in 930 pages) from baronet's wife to duchess, while Grace's son parlays a naval career into a knighthood. After...
Horton was also praised by his fellow workers in the General Council. Dr. Samuel McCrae Cavert, representing the Worled Council of Churches, called Horton one of the most conspicuous leaders in the faith and order aspect of the World Council...
...Johnson and Samuel Butler proved, a man who believes that swallows hibernate in the mud beneath ponds or that a woman wrote the Odyssey can still write sensibly and well. A man who believes that the human race is largely composed of sinister little fascist gremlins engaged in re-enacting the Crucifixion with the author himself as the central figure, is in somewhat worse shape. Still, U.S. Communist Howard Fast keeps on writing all the time. He has just brought out 16 more stories, and his publishers bill him as the world's most widely read living novelist...
Five years ago Joseph Wood Krutch, biographer of Samuel Johnson and Henry David Thoreau, a man of letters accustomed to the Northeast, moved to an air-cooled ranch house near Tucson. Ariz...