Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife-his second-in Stockholm, he settled down comfortably with a slim Polish girl named Brunhilda, who had accompanied him across the Atlantic. (Eisler maintains that he got a Mexican divorce from his Stockholm wife in 1942, married Brunhilda in Norwalk, Conn, the same year.) He became an airraid warden, contributed to a blood bank, nodded pleasantly to his neighbors...
Round Trip. In Lansing, Kans., Prisoners J. Edward Moler and Harold Malicoat escaped from the state penitentiary, thumbed a ride to Kansas City, found that the driver was penitentiary warden Robert Hudspeth...
...past all sorts of people have found the Current Affairs Test engaging-as a challenge to their knowledge of the news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
...Rock's siren wailed across the Bay. Outside the cell block, James J. Johnston, 71-year-old warden, known to the inmates as "Saltwater" Johnston, radioed for help to San Francisco police and the Coast Guard. Johnston's remaining guards herded 150 prisoners out of prison shops and into the yard. Other prisoners crouched in their cells...
...dozen stories in Ivy Gripped the Steps are stories of England and Ireland during the war. There is no gunfire or other military matter in them, not even the sound of an air-raid alarm, though Miss Bowen herself served during the war as an air-raid warden, and saw what bombs could do to her own London home. A spare, poised, shy but sociable woman, Elizabeth Bowen in private life is Mrs. Alan Cameron, the wife of an educator and ex-BBC official...