Word: wals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chubby mechanic named Walter ("Wal") Hannington was so useful to the British Government as a highly-skilled armaments tooler in 1914 that he was exempted from active army duty. It would have saved His Majesty's Government a pack of trouble in the past 20 years if Wal had gone to France and stopped a German bullet...
...November 11, 1918, the War ended but Wal was just beginning. He celebrated...
From Paris, dispassionate Pundit Wal ter Lippmann set the next deadline September...
...Youth Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their work so well that to the second congress last week came youths from almost every important country, nearly every major church, every shade of political opinion. It claimed to represent 40,000,000 of the world's youth...
...Governor Allred Convict Baker explained his nickname: "Wal, Guv'nor, when I first landed in de pen, I was chopping wood one day when we cut down an oak tree and a big limb hit me in de head. Dat limb broke, but I went right on workin'. So de boys call me Ironhead...