Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers and thoughts down to the gracious 16th century country home in Essex. There, slipping into baggy slacks, he relaxed for an afternoon of pottering about the rose garden with his wife. Next day he read the lesson at the local Anglican church, where he is vicar's warden. In his constituency Rab is universally respected and frequently liked, by gentry and tradesmen alike. "They say he's a cold fish," snorted a retired admiral who often shoots with him. "That's nonsense. Of course, he does not wear his heart on his sleeve. But Rab stands...
...making herself pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of impeccable low comedy. Each of her intrusions on her son and daughter-in-law (well played by Jack Warden and Kay Medford) makes a bright little blob of color for the play...
...best thing about Riot is its mood of driving concern to get certain facts about prison life before the public. The camera seeks them in the hate-dark faces of prisoners, on the power-cold features of officials. Here and there it stares to find a human face: the warden (impressively played by Emile Meyer) is a figure as granite-hard as his prison walls, but a chisel of harder experience seems to have gouged his face with understanding...
...Conner family of the Midwest city of Green Prairie represent the new Wylie ideal. Father Conner is a sturdy sector warden who has kept his faith in C.D. throughout the dull years of cold war. So have his worthy wife and their sons Ted (a radio ham) and Chuck (an architect serving in Air Force intelligence). But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry. Trouble is that Lenore is faced with the prospect...
...Mexican consul in Kansas City, Mo. during President Venustiano Carranza's time [1917-1920], it was my duty to talk with every Mexican in the state penitentiary and secure pardons for in nocent ones who did not have interpreters at their trials. I found one man whom the warden had no record of, but who had been in prison (working in coal mines) for over five years. Investigation proved that he merely accompanied a convicted friend from the mines at Joplin to bid him goodbye at the penitentiary gate. As he walked in, the gates closed. They...