Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quentin, Calif., prison officials admitted why one prisoner (alone among 6,000) was allowed to wear a beard. Louis Gianopolis, an old shepherd, when taken to the prison barber to be shaved, screamed: "You're not the boss here, God is boss and you will be punished." The barber cried: "I'm the boss!" with that fell dead of a heart attack...
...Smith's outlook on music is sociological, stems from his interest in people, their customs and living conditions. In no slumming or night-out spirit did he shepherd his fellows to Harlem. He says of U. S. folk music: "It's the best thing we have. It's as American as chewing gum and Mark Twain, good and tawdry and proud...
With 9,000 Americans to shepherd in England, with tangible U. S. business interests under his eye, with 150 Americans cabling from the U. S. daily for information on Athenia survivors, with British bigwigs to see, Franklin Roosevelt to keep informed, Joe Kennedy had a bigger job. Twice he had to make hard choices: on Tuesday, whether to get a haircut or have lunch (he chose haircut); on Wednesday, whether to get mad at the State Department or the Maritime Commission for delays in ordering South America-bound cruise ships to head for Europe instead (he chose Maritime Commission...
...hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves. That first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill...
...Jack T. Shepherd, 17, of Park Hills, Covington; Dixie Heights High School...