Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morning After. Two Klansmen drove the car and its three occupants to the outskirts of the town of Manchester, carefully wiped the steering wheel clean of fingerprints and vanished. Minutes later, discovered by a Manchester cop, the newsmen landed in the Manchester jail charged with drunkenness. Their city editor, Joe Hall, bailed them...
...Broken Wheel. At the funeral a children's choir sang Thomas Masaryk's favorite folk song, a simple ballad with a haunting tune, Ach Synku, Synku...
Father, the wheel broke, Father, the wheel broke, We'll have to strengthen each spoke...
...provincial university life; one daughter seeks salvation in science, another in religion; a son can see no salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley. England, being itself the hero of The Linden Tree, would understandably give it a hearing. But simply as playwriting it is talky and lifeless...
After the first two days, the halfway mark, Kehoe's greys had won seven fights without losing one. Their owner chortled gleefully from his wheel chair: "The way they're dropping you'd think I was using a shotgun on them." A man from Tennessee, allowing that Kehoe was right, said to a man from North Carolina: "There's something that old man's got onto...