Word: wade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guard Troy Wade dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...
Gangsters. Discovered in London last fortnight was a mobile defense unit against parachutists, formed and drilled secretly (lest the U. S. State Department become exercised). It was composed of 60 Americans with property and interests in Britain. Commander was Brigadier General Wade Hampton Hayes (retired), 61, onetime Sunday editor of the old New York Tribune, member of General Pershing's staff in World War I. A leading spirit was Charles Sweeney, 30, of Federation Bank & Trust Co., sporting brother of onetime (1937) British Amateur Golf Champion Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who now lives in the U. S. Brother Robert helped...
...tots have a rhythm band, paint, wade, swim, take turns eating at a French table (where only French is spoken). Brightest spot in Sherwood School's day is the "conversation hour." Excerpts from a sample kindergarten conversation: "Let's not talk about Hitler today.""No, let's not talk about that awful man." "He's worse than Gulliver."-"Gulliver and Hitler shoot everybody."Last week both boys and girls were busy with war games. For playing too enthusiastically, one little boy was sentenced by his classmates to write 500 times: "It is wrong to hit little...
MARGARET FULLER-Mason Wade-Viking...
...Transcendentalist Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Fuller was No. 1 feminist writer of her day. She edited the highbrow Dial, and as Horace Greeley's first columnist ranked next to Poe as literary critic. But she is not remembered for her writing. What survives is curiosity about her personality. Biographer Wade, 26-year-old publisher's editor and book reviewer, will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments to her brilliant talk, magnetism...