Word: swains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saying, that it was just too hot to go anywhere George Trudean and Lot Swain stayed close around Boston with the American Legion taking the supply of tonic in the glass, in the battle...
...Atlantic City, 3,500 delegates of the Northern Baptist Convention (1,460,000 communicants) elected Mrs. Leslie E. Swain of Providence the second woman president in the Convention's 130-year history.* The Convention reaffirmed the Northern Baptist anti-war stand, but decided to give its blessing to individual Baptists taking part in the war. Said the Convention's war resolution (drawn up by Dr. Daniel A. Poling): "The church must be the church-not a recruiting agency for any government. [But] she must companion her sons and daughters wherever as conscientious Christians they...
Like most U.S. schools last week, the high school at Warden, Wash, was understaffed. Its faculty had, in fact, been halved. The half that was left was Mrs. Jeannette Swain Evans. She was teaching English, history, mathematics, biology, music, handicrafts and bookkeeping. It was the epitome of the wartime teacher-shortage problem (TIME, March...
Fleet Air Arm: Robertson, g; Aldridge r.f.; Seeley, l.f.; Wales, c.h.b.; Buss, r.h.; Swain, l.h.; Fitzpatrick, r.o.; Taylor, r.l.; Walter, c.f.; Eckfort, l.i.; Larkin...
...over the other, is unimportant. What matters are the delicious beads of humor strung on the thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in a lonely mountain cabin with a friendly prospector named Big Jim (Mack Swain), Charlie hopefully removes a shoe and places it in the stewpot. Tenderly basting the foul boot with its own juices, he nurses it along to Big Jim's bursting point. "Not quite done yet," soothes the Little Fellow. "Give it two more minutes." He serves it up with...