Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, Warden Edwin Swope brought up a housing problem of another sort. The average cost of rooming & boarding an inmate of Alcatraz, he announced, is now $8 a day-more than twice the rate of other federal prisons, and about the same as a single room in a good San Francisco hotel...
...rector put up a barbed-wire fence around his house. When he tried to sell not only the organ but the church's prized 13th century chalice-to get money for a parish sports program-the parish council refused to approve it. And Nick Bunt, the church warden, a testy-tempered farmer, shouted a plain warning: "If you touch that organ, I'll down...
Nonstop. In Glasgow, Scotland, Barlinnie Prison officials called off the annual in mate-warden rugby game outside prison walls after a study of the records disclosed that eleven prisoners have kept on running when they reached the goal line...
While some stories require treatment like this, others do not. A prison riot, for example, could be written up without any comment at all on the reporter's part. On the other hand, if the prison's warden blamed the fracas on a niggardly budget, then the article should include figures on what that budget was and perhaps how it compares to those in other states. Where interpretation is needed and where it is not should be left up to the editors and reporters themselves...
...Evelyn Warden as Maggy Haggerty, however, is so much the standard Irish washerwoman that every line she voiced sounded to me like "oooh, full faith and credit," but some of the other Irish, especially Phyllis Love as a sheltered young damsel under Maggy's wide wing, are able to vary their inflections with their emotions. In this respect, Salem Ludwig, as a roomer, beats them all; but he is supposed to be a Rumanian...