Word: waldo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian navy's interest in the surgeon of the Cayuga seemed to stop right there. It shielded him from reporters who had a host of questions. It did divulge that his real name was. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 29, of Lawrence, Mass.* That was all. Why had he posed as a doctor? "I'm as curious as everyone else is," said Commodore Kenneth Adams, "but it didn't come within the scope of the inquiry to ask him why. And so far as the navy is concerned, he is a doctor. No man without medical knowledge could...
Portrait of a Hero THE BIRTH OF A WORLD (432 pp.) -Waldo Frank- Houghton Mlfflin...
Such was Simon Bolivar, as Waldo Frank writes, and frequently overwrites, about him. The Birth of a World is in the grand, Frank-incensed style: dramatic accounts of battles, perceptive essays on Latin-American landscape and character, lingering portraits of Bolivar and his aides, pretentious speculations on the "wholeness" of Bolivar's personality...
...Waldenses, who like to think of themselves as the first Protestants, were followers of a French merchant named Peter Waldo. They publicly objected to papal pomp and corruption, and in the 13th Century were driven into the hills, where they managed to survive despite sporadic attempts to exterminate them. One massacre inspired Milton to write his famed sonnet...
...mysterious copper medallion bearing an image of the U.S.S. Monitor was turned over for identification yesterday to American Patriots for Raising the Monitor. The coin, dated 1864, is owned by Waldo J. Tyler of Wollaston. Tyler were it on his watch chain as a youth, but does not know its origin or purpose...