Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Prison at Wetumpka opened a beauty parlor to improve morale, teach trades to women prisoners. Last week there was a riot among the 300 women (210 of them Negroes) when one was told she couldn't have her nails manicured. When the screaming and scratching ended, Warden J. Curtis Weldon Sr. gave five white women prisoners their choice of seven lashes apiece or loss of prison privileges for 60 days. They chose the flogging, which the warden administered himself. Alabama's Governor Dixon promptly fired the warden...
...London Evening Standard, this week published his first collection of World War II cartoons, Low on the War (Simon & Schuster, $2). Low, who has cartooned for 39 of his 50 years, declared war on the Axis long before the Allies did, now doubles as a London fire warden.* German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who mortally hates & fears Low's cartoons (note the clubfooted, degenerate dwarf at lower right), had a brief revenge last year: Low came down with German measles...
John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power, etc.) stopped his fellow-traveling with the war and became an air-raid warden. Digging for Mrs. Miller is a classic account of what a warden does and sees...
Strachey's warden (whom he modestly calls Ford) covered a poor section of London near the Thames River. "A bomb, or bombs, had hit the last five houses in Beaton Street . . . and a small tenement...
...asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...