Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
Spared: Paris, Rome. Some 4,000 British churches were hit. Canterbury suffered glancing blows: the adjoining priory was badly smashed; Exeter Cathedral took a heavy pounding. At Coventry, scene of Germany's first spiteful "Baedeker raid," the cathedral spire stood alone-a stone tree in a stone desert...
...Nuisances. Whatever the differences of the Big Three, says Nicolson, their peacemaking would have been easier if the major powers alone were involved. Inevitable "nuisances,and . . . eccentrics" were present at the Congress of Vienna. Prussian Delegate Prince Hardenburg was stone-deaf. Spanish Delegate Don Pedro Gomez Labrador spent his time mimicking French Delegate Talleyrand. Thirty-two minor German royalties attended-and brought their wives, mistresses and secretaries of state...
...lineup: re, Bresnahan, McDaniel, McKeon; rt, Waterhouse, Middendorf; rg, Powell, Draper; c. Loring, Grady; lg, Byrnes, Stensrud, Noonan; lt, Kiever, Gale; le, Fitz, Carnes; qb, Harrison, Stone, Lunder; lhb, Farrell (capt.), Brady, Mosely, Warren; rhb, Sullivan, Kelly, Harwood; fb, Hill, Powers, Grant...
...lineups: Harvard Freshmen: le, Leavitt; lt, Matters; lg, Guidera, Hickey; c, Ward, Stone; rg, Kelley, Ashton; rt, Reed; re, Almy, Forsyth; qb, Kenary; lhb, Trimble; rhb, Marangiello, Reiner; fb, Merkle, Goodrich...