Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand had done most of the work of lifting the Post's face. Five years ago, when the Post was in a slump, plump Editor Wesley Winans Stout stepped out. Before his chair had cooled, Curtis Publishing Co.'s President Walter D. Fuller set Ben Hibbs in it, and gave him plenty of elbow room. A tall, quiet-spoken Phi Beta Kappa Kansan, 45-year-old Ben Hibbs had been putting some spring in the Country Gentleman's step...
...JOHN WESLEY NELSON...
...Diego, Calif., Attorney Alfred Wesley Ingalls and his wife were charged with having kept a Negro maid named Dora L. Jones in payless slavery for 30 years by threatening to expose her for a misdemeanor in her youth. Californians were particularly horrified to learn that Dora had never seen a talking picture...
Shortly after her father's death, Marian Anderson was "converted." Her mother is a Methodist. But Marian was converted in her father's Union Baptist Church, largely because the late Rev. Wesley G. Parks was deeply interested in . music, loved his choirs and encouraged any outstanding singer in them. At 13, Marian was singing in the church's adult choir. She took home the scores, and sang all the parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) over & over to her family until she had learned them. Since work is also a religion to her, Miss Anderson considers this...
...Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...