Word: smithfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas of the South, has to be taken with seriousness in Vulcan's city. Reason: in the last decade, by minimal count of Birmingham's white newspapers, there have already been 22 dynamite bombings and four arson burnings at tributable to race tensions. Fountain Heights and North Smithfield, where Negroes, with a go-ahead from federal courts, began moving in nine years ago to break the city's segregated housing patterns, are now known as "Dynamite Hill." The $18,000 home of the Negro woman who had won the lawsuit was torn by a dynamite blast days...
...Minister Smithfield Friends' Meeting Woonsocket...
...most ambitious new effort has come from billion-dollar General Foods Corp., which bit into the market last year with 53 packaged "gourmet" items, planning to sell them for prestige value alone. General Foods this year will add seven new luxuries, including bouillabaisse ($1.10), spiced Cherry Heering preserves ($1.25), Smithfield ham and cheese paté (70?), babas au rhum ($1.10). Nestlé will now have a big finger in the luxury pie, recently signed to sell Switzerland's famed Hero line of preserves...
...deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned at Smithfield...
Below the Salt. The barefoot Venus of Smithfield, N.C. was in some respects an excellent match for the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Hoboken. They had come from well below the salt, and they loved the high life at the head of the table. Ava, who had been chastened in two marriages and on the analytic couch as well, saw through her martini glass more darkly than did Frank. "If I were a man," she told him, "I wouldn't like me." But Frank liked her very much indeed, left home to keep her stormy, full-time company, finally persuaded...