Word: watchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Armed with axes and spurred on by a wave of alcoholic enthusiasm, the three patriots climbed over all obstacles only to run into an ambush of Yale watchmen. The cops held on with bulldog ferocity, and finally escorted the miscreants to jail, where they remained until after midnight...
...wily words. Winsome Willkie's worried wretches watch wonderingly while Wendell's wide wagon wabbles, wavers, wriggles weakly, weirdly wrecks. Willkie's wailing, wild words won't worry worthy workers, wives, widows, workless. Whooping windbag, Willkie wallops will-o'-wisps. Workingmen want work. Wayfarers, watchmen: warn wireless "Willkie...
...through ten-week brush-up courses for work in U. S. armament factories. Many an applicant wanted to know how much he would be paid while studying (answer: nothing). Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were not mechanics by trade, they were handy around the house. Garment workers mistakenly enrolled for a course in pattern cutting, learned that it dealt with cutting machine parts, not underwear. Some applicants...
Last week President Disston moseyed through his strikebound plant, chatting with watchmen, smiling at a troupe of young kittens tangled up in the heaps of sawdust. He announced that the firm would content itself with presenting engraved Disston 0-95 Masterpiece saws...
...having been passed on to his soberer 21-year-old son-Prince Wadiyar's greatest enthusiasm has been the cinema industry. While in England he would hang around Denham (the Korda Studios) all day, and return in the middle of the night to shout out of their beds watchmen, actors, directors. Prince Wadiyar's contribution to civilization: he discovered Sabu, the Elephant...