Word: xenia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Xenia, Ohio...
Died. Captain Martin L. Smith, 27, one of the Army Air Forces' top jet pilots, holder of the unofficial U.S. speed record (619 m.p.h.), veteran of 78 wartime fighter missions; when his jet-propelled P-80 Lockheed Shooting Star hurtled into the ground; near Xenia, Ohio...
...poor advertisement for the nationalization program which had swept them into office, some British Labor Ministers began to rant at the "selfish minority" of miners who were holding up British recovery. Not all their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner's ration...
...poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...
...time Edith got to the huge palace of Xenia, her father, whom she had never known, was dead. The senior girls remembered him, used to discuss him loudly when Edith was in hearing distance, praising him to the skies to salt the wound of her ignorance of him. But when one of them said he must have been a cad to have left Edith's mother, Edith slapped her, nearly got expelled...