Word: scars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Task Force D. Assistant Prosecutor Lieut. Harris Whitney, U.S.N., took up the case of scar-faced Ernst Kaltenbrunner, successor to bloody Hangman Reinhard Heydrich as the Gestapo's No. 2 man. Sample charges: ordering the murder of civilians in occupied countries, devising a system for selecting gas-chamber candidates, encouraging the lynching of Allied airmen...
Cornered (RKO Radio) is ex-Crooner Dick Powell's second try (The first: Murder, My Sweet) in the sort of unshaven, tough-talking role usually reserved for Humphrey Bogart. This time Powell is a Canadian flyer, an ex-prisoner of the Nazis, with an ugly scar on his close-cropped head and a frozen scowl on his face. He is out to get the dirty collaborationist who murdered his young French wife. The chase takes him to South America and into a nest of fashionably dressed, fast-living people who are plainly plotting the next Nazi war of aggression...
...educated first by the Jesuits, then at the University of London. At 17 he was already a Fascist. While brawling in the streets he was cut from mouth to ear, and he carries the scar to this day. He joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist group, later broke away to create a faction of his own. Whenever he needed credentials of any sort, he claimed British citizenship...
Wormwood. The prisoner was so pale that his face scar gleamed red, but he showed no other sign of emotion. Leaving the dock, he smiled and waved at his brother Edwin, a British civil servant. Edwin waved back. To bystanders the two gestures looked like Fascist salutes. But when William had been led away, Edwin knelt on the courtroom floor and made the sign of the cross...
...whose bald head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...