Word: audrey
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...AUDREY ANDERSON Orange...
...trouble began in the first round when 13-year-old Audrey Mathews of Washington was sent down in tears for spelling supersede with a "c." Four rounds later, red-faced judges called her back after finding that such a respectable authority as Webster's unabridged dictionary accepted Audrey's spelling as a correct variant. Nobody could remember when National Spelling Bee judges had ever had to reverse themselves in such fashion. And they were not through backtracking. Before the contest was over they had done it three times more, belatedly accepting knarled (for gnarled), coruscate with a double...
World Citizen Garry Davis, 28, who tore up his U.S. passport in 1948, seemed to have postponed his search for "oblivion." Back in his native land on a French immigrant's visa, Garry married brunette Audrey Peters, 21, an ex-Hollywood dancer whom he had courted by mail. They met for the first time after he landed from the America three weeks ago. First, Garry and Audrey said their vows in the city hall plaza at Ellsworth, Me., while 500 townspeople joined in chanting a "unification of love" service which Garry had written, printed and passed around. Asked about...
...York Times Reporter Jay Walz and wife Audrey (a successful writer of whodunits who signs herself Francis Bonnamy) thumbed their way through several dusty archives full of old diaries, memoirs and letters to piece together their fictional account of one of the young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before...
...BIZARRE SISTERS (371 pp.)-Jay and Audrey Walz- Duell, Sloan & Pearce...