Word: utica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House-high waves blew the freighter Utica aground in Lake Nicolet, Mich...
This year, after a 20-year separation, Sir Thomas divorced his first wife, the former Utica Welles (New York-born descendant of Connecticut's fourth Governor Thomas Welles). They have two sons, Adrian, 38, and Thomas, 33, both at present with the British Armed Forces. Sir Thomas has five elderly sisters, whom he describes as "very agreeable creatures," all living in England and married to "husbands who all do exactly what they want them to do-I don't know whether it's a family attribute, or just luck...
Said one contributor, Editor Paul B. Williams of the Utica (N.Y.) Press, who took a personal poll in upstate New York: "Concerning relations between . . . the U.S. and states seeking to achieve economic and political independence, notably China and India, the replies were remarkably vague. The most illuminating answer came from a prosperous Welsh dairyman who said: 'Can we teach a man like Gandhi to wear britches...
...have been the most flagrant of all, are bound to get worse as the oil-rich west is subjected to rationing. In New York City OPA broke up a gas-coupon pool that sounded like the Al Capone days, included gangsters called "Red," "Lefty," "The Mutt" and "Bananas." A Utica ring stole 8,450 "B" and "C" books, peddled them through a long chain of New York City racketeers who kept hijacking them from each other. OPA got its first big clue from frisking a murdered gangster in Queens who had not" had the foresight to remove the cover from...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Utica Celestia Beecham; by goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, noted English conductor currently directing in Seattle; in Idaho City. Married in London in 1903, he said they had not lived together since...