Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deputy sheriffs took him away to prison right from the bargaining table at Manhattan's Americana Hotel. Two hours later, as he sat in the warden's office of civil prison, his head suddenly flopped forward. A doctor quickly summoned an ambulance, and Quill was taken to the emergency ward of Bellevue Hospital, where his collapse, possibly from a heart attack, was described as serious. A second team of union negotiators took over, led by T.W.U. Vice President Douglas MacMahon, 59, who shortly announced that the strike would go on "until hell freezes over...
...several unfortunate lines that from the way they are delivered, make you wonder if they are intended to refer to Burton's role in Becket. Control refers to Fiedler as the "acolyte who will one day stab the high priest in the back;" and Burton refers to the warden in the prison as the Archbishop of Canterbury. It's not the right kind of movie for clever allusions. The lines would have been better left...
Britain's illustrious public schools suffered repeated student rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries. At Winchester in 1793, after stoning the assistant headmaster with marbles, the boys locked him up overnight in the dining hall with the warden and a teacher. When the high sheriff was appealed to the next day, he refused help because the boys had firearms and were getting ready to defend the Outer Gate by flinging flagstones down on the police. Harvard and Princeton experienced numerous such episodes. In 1788 the situation at Harvard was so bad that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what...
...Britain, during the blitz, special airraid shelters were created for pregnant women and invalids. One night, an airraid warden called down into the depths of the Piccadilly Circus tube station: "I say, are there any pregnant women there?" Instantly came back your answer: "Gorblimey, guv'nor, give us a chawnce-we've only been here seven minutes...
Situation Hopeless-But Not Serious. It is Germany, 1944. Allied bombs are splintering a village, and out of the smoke and rubble steps a helmeted, hesitant air-raid warden named Frick...