Word: normans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud ; the Rev. Sam Morris who daily lets fly on the evils of alcohol and Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel...
...There was first a noble front of such eminent moralists as Norman Thomas, oldtime Pacifist Oswald Garrison Villard and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who is full of guilty feelings about the last...
...academic subject that fascinates her. There is nothing she loves better than to read a book or give a lecture on the evils of money as it is administered today. According to her sister, Mrs. Frederick Sundt, of Seattle, Mrs. Milburn has it in for Montagu Norman and other bankers and thinks that they, as middlemen, should be eliminated. Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined the Greenback Party, which advocates the withdrawal of all gold and silver certificates, substitution of paper money backed not by bullion but by "faith." She was listed in the The Honest Money Year Book...
...Home Fleet; Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, overseas commander of the R. A. F.; Major General Bernard Charles Tolver Paget who directed the "historic" withdrawal from Andalsnes; and 40 members of the armed services from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the colonies. To a Mrs. Norman Cardwell, 45-year-old farmer's wife, he gave the Order of the British Empire for her singlehanded capture of a shot-down Nazi air pilot. Britons devoured her story in the newspapers. Excerpt...
...geography was generally dismissed with one word, invulnerable. Across its wind-whipped moat-the English Channel-no invader passed to establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland to conquer England. And thrice since then this coast has been seriously threatened by an invading army...