Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jailers' Choice. In Ottawa, twelve Carleton County jail prisoners rioted, smashed furniture and windows when the warden banned gambling, took away playing cards...
...occasionally ascertains by a glance through his spare telescope), all undressed and no place to go. Then star-crossed Miss Lamarr falls into the hands of a female astrologer (Fay Bainter) who predicts the coming of an Ideal Lover so convincingly that Miss Lamarr mistakes the handiest air-raid warden (James Craig) for journey...
Shuddering with jealousy, Astronomer Powell lectures his learned colleagues, in sweating double entendre, about the collision of two heavenly bodies. At last, after getting blitzed on vodka, and giving the lonely air warden a dog which soon displaces Miss Lamarr in the warden's affections, Professor Powell gets his love life back into focus. Mr. Craig and the dog make a handsome couple. Miss Lamarr has seldom looked more mouth-watering or seemed more tired of it all. William Powell, busy as a beaver, cheats a few glimmers of fun out of all the suggestive mockery...
...Farmington River. The red sandstone buildings were in the style of England's Cotswolds. Roofs were carefully warped and steps synthetically worn. Student life had its own picturesqueness proceeding out of the founder's ideas. The school was organized as a New England town with a warden, council and judges elected by the boys. The boys had to pay for "town" (school) hunting and fishing licenses, "town" taxes on radios and bicycles. Since Mrs. Riddle largely disapproved of athletic games, the emphasis was on farming, fishing, hunting, swimming (in a real hole), riding (leading to polo, on blooded...
Wolfs Clothing. In Union City, N.J., Deputy City Game Warden William Kuhn conjectured that the timber wolf prowling the Hudson County marshland had probably entered from Canada last December- in a carload of Christmas trees...