Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio), a St. Louis priest (circa 1900), gets interested in newsboys who are tough and toughly used. Thanks to a disconcerting, downright embarrassing skill at cadging, badgering and sharp dealing in the interests of a good cause, he manages to found a home for them-first a ramshackle old wooden one, at last a portly new brick one. The boys, needless to say, are mischievous little devils but angels at heart. The one exception (Darryl Hickman) is ruined by the influence of his particularly villainous father (well played by Joseph Sawyer...
...trot, the way she always goes about things . . . We kept on bumping into Roosevelts ... I can't recall how many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen, and I tell you my heart sank . . . Dark-looking cupboards . . . sinks with time-worn wooden drains, one rusty wooden dumbwaiter." Rats, cockroaches, ants, moths shared living space with 32 servants: there wasn't a cookbook in the whole place, or "enough utensils to cook a fair-sized family meal." "You're not to worry . . . You're going to be all right," said...
Under the Roof. Frantic cries from inside a nearby flattened shop came from two women and two children pinned beneath the wooden roof. Distracted passersby paused for a moment to help pry up the fallen beams. By this time the fire was spreading in all directions, coming toward us fast. The two rescued women, their babies in their arms, crawled out, red-faced and shaking, shouting "Arigato, arigato!" (Thank you, thank you!). Almost immediately the fire jumped across the street and caught the building from which they had just been rescued...
Night after night in Frankfurt, U.S. Army trucks had been backing up to the Reichsbank, then driving off with loads of heavy wooden cases cryptically marked "Clay" and "Bird Dog." Officially, what was in the cases was a secret. Said one G.I. truckman to another after a week of it: "They can't fool me. Know what we're carrying in them boxes? Ammunition for the Israelites!" His companion replied: "It's ammo all right, but something tells me it's going to the A-rabs...
Arrogant SS General Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal surgeon, had had a pretty good idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt...