Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing's famed warden, who retired in 1941 with his eye on farming, literature, Hollywood, radio, was up to his ears in war work: needling prisons into greater farm production, getting model prisoners freed (and ex-cons okayed) for service in the armed forces...
...distinguished literary quarterly in the language, he was tired. Today he is 1) a director of Faber & Faber, publishers; 2) advisory editor of The Christian Newsletter; 3) commentator in the New English Weekly (Eliot's latest contribution is an essay, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture); 4) church warden of Anglo-Catholic St. Stephen's, in London's respectable Kensington; 5) British Council lecturer; 6) fire watcher in quiet Bloomsbury...
...hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin' along to civilize...
...Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war came. Through Private Breger, Cartoonist Breger translates Army life into civilian terms. One cartoon showed a squad of soldiers being stopped by a game warden, who demanded to see their hunting licenses. Like all artists, Breger has small idiosyncrasies which trade-mark his drawings. He always draws officers with jutting jaws, privates with rounded chins...