Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school and prep-school youngsters are eligible but not required to join the Corps. To wear a plain red V on his sleeve, a student must take courses in physical fitness and a war-useful subject (e.g., math), must enroll in at least one home-front job (e.g., air warden, scrap collector, farm worker...
...performance (it is billed as "the American Mrs. Miniver") fit each other like gloves without hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone...
Under Acting Chief Warden Irving B. Parkhurst, Assistant Business Manager, resident Faculty members, employees, and students secured rapid cooperation. During the test, only a single block of lights on Massachusetts Avenue marked out the college for the imaginary night raiders...
University officials in charge of civilian defense were unanimous in their satisfaction with the efficiency of the Harvard ARP system. Aldrich Durant, chief air raid warden, called the test "perfectly satisfactory"; and Dr. Donald Scott, chairman of the Committee of Civilian Defense, regarded the results as indicating "real safety" for the University...
Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of Leningrad's Conservatory of Music, Fire Warden Shostakovich snapped: "Here the muses speak together with the guns...