Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand from Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt, who had been dunned for back church dues by his senior warden, was a reply, in effect: "Dad, if your check is still good, you pay my dues and when the war is over I'll pay you back." Also in Dad's possession was a foot-square slab of grey stone, a fragment of the bombed House of Commons, a gift from Parliament...
...caught trying to assassinate a democratic politician, he fled to Italy. When Hitler came into power, Eicke came home to head the SS Death's Head Brigade-the guards who tortured into pulp the minds and bodies of anti-Nazi Germans in the new concentration camps. Eicke was warden of Dachau, and there he was in his element: he meted out the most indecent punishments himself...
...uptilted eyebrows in civilian defense and war relief in Manhattan was little Raden Ajoe Abdullcadir Widjojoatmodjo, Javanese princess, refugee from Jap-invaded Batavia. Air-raid warden, Red Cross worker, lecturer, maker of surgical dressings, she remembers a legend that foretells a better day: "Three hundred years ago, a king of Java prophesied that yellow people would invade Java-but not for long. Look at that-not for long. Means they will not be there long, the Japs. It is good omen...
...applied for active duty after Pearl Harbor, still likes to think the Army was wrong to say no. When Senate office building janitors began marking off air-raid shelters, he fetched his two rusty World War I helmets to his office, announced that he was ready to serve as warden. No planes came over Washington, so he finally stacked the helmets in his office fireplace and redoubled his efforts on the committee...
Although no official certificates may be awarded to those who hear the lecture, the course will be adequate training for a College warden post, while it will serve as an important refresher to previously accredited...