Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes. Oklahoma is constitutionally bone-dry, but licenses 3.2 beer, which is dispensed in the subterranean cafeteria of the domeless State House. But "Big Red" mortally hates liquor, fires out of hand employes who drink on duty. If you were to order beer in the State House cafeteria this week, chances are the waitress would ask guardedly: "Do you want it in a paper cup?" If you were a State employe, you'd say "Yes." She would keep the bottle out of sight and you'd pick up some mints...
...Last week State Auditor Frank Carter reported that "Big Red" had cut State expenditures $1,570,000 below appropriations since last July 1, that savings should total $3,400,000 by the fiscal year...
Scarcely able to move, so weakened was she by pneumonia, 69-year-old Mary Kincaid lay in bed in her Wildwood, N. J. home while her husband Henry, 84, took care of her. Last week Henry, ill himself, lay down beside her, died. Desperately, Mary Kincaid tried to raise her husky voice in a cry for help, lay there helpless for two days, finally summoned strength enough to rise, totter to the window, beckon in a passerby...
Famed also is the capacity of New Yorkers to endure the twice-daily pants-and-collar bum's rush from the guards-so much so that most of last week's New York City subway news roused no more impassioned attention than an advertising car card...
...from Greens Farms, Conn, for four years. Twice a day he had been shoved around in Grand Central Station, trampled like a grape in a vintage year; then, as he neared the train, given the old heave-o into the car by bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much for Commuter Brooks. Wheeling, he smacked Guard Walsh a lusty bust smack on the nose. Arrested, given a suspended...