Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night in 1944 a lawyer named Pietro Monni stopped in the lonely gorge to ask help in fixing the leak in his bicycle tire, and stayed for the night. Carolina's mother heard a shot. "I got up and saw my husband carrying out a big bundle-a sheet with a human foot hanging out." Three years later another bicyclist stopped, and did not live the night. This time Carolina's terrified mother summoned her courage and notified the police. At the trial Picchioni brazenly confessed to two more murders, and a dozen others were attributed...
Moysey charged that the Communist Party owed $389,265 in back taxes, penalties and interest for 1951, and that its propaganda sheet, the Daily Worker, owed another $46,049 for 1951-53 (see PRESS). He filed liens against the party's assets in New York, where Communist national headquarters are located, and asked district directors to do the same in their cities...
Just 20 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, deciding that it needed a news sheet for its 1,200 members, appointed a brisk little lady named Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz to put it together. The weekly Opera News got under way with no cooperation from the Met, which, even more than it does today, liked to keep its future plans a secret, but the paper chatted about new productions for each week of the Met's then 14-week season, and it survived. Then, through the Saturday afternoon broadcasts, the Guild went on a national basis, soon found itself...
...Fortunate Unfortunates. Far from believing with William Blake that "the harlot's cry from street to street shall weave old England's winding sheet," Pearl takes a dry delight in proposing that the "unfortunates," the "soiled doves," not only had a better time of it than their virtuous sisters sweating in domestic slavery or the nightmare of piecework needlework, but were better people in some ways than the severely swathed ladies and broadcloth gentlemen who regarded them as a "social evil...
...Switch. The Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis got into trouble late last year, after it bought for one of its Negro salesmen a $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P. on the theory that it would help him in his dealings with Negro customers. The White Sentinel, a sewer sheet published in St. Louis by John Hamilton, an ex-Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies were...