Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congo waters, banged out the suggestion that surrounding tribesmen kill the beast. They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws." When storm clouds rose, Carrington socked out: "Bad man, son of disease, is coming down upon clods of earth." Tribesmen began closing the doors of the wicker huts...
...Sing Sing and into a waiting limousine popped Richard Whitney, paroled after three years, four months of prison for grand larceny when his brokerage firm failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...
Ronald E. Vanelli, Quincy, Mass,; Whiting Wicker, Burlington, Vt.; Joseph P. Willetts, Roslyn, L.I.N.Y,; Arthur T. Wood, Brookline, Mass,; and Charles B. Woodman, Cambridge, Mass...
Beaming like the good Baptist, Elk, and Coshocton, Ohio Democrat that he is, amiable old Bill Green strolled in at the Miami-Biltmore Pools to see this year's Miss Florida picked, plopped into a wicker chair next to one that astonishingly enough contained Fandangler Sally Rand, promptly discovered that her conversational resources were also very compelling...
...Windsor" went aboard at Lisbon well before sailing time with three cairn terriers and a Sealyham, 52 pieces of luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid...