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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Prophecy I (1920) was remembered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Charles G. Ross: "The handwriting is there as plain as ever was mene mene tekel up-harsin. . . . The general service pension is coming. It's as certain as death and taxes...
...brother Tom, who were raising Cain at a relief office in Jackson, the county seat. One of the Howard boys shot Jerry Combs dead. Three weeks later, Lewis Combs met Sheriff Deaton's one-armed son, Deputy Sheriff Fred Deaton. The Saturday crowd at the Jackson post office saw Lewis Combs pull his gun, saw Fred Deaton do the same with his lone right hand. Lewis Combs wounded Fred Deaton, who killed Lewis Combs. Last March 16, a bus carrying Deputy Sheriff Wilson Deaton passed five men brawling on a roadside near Jackson. A bullet whistled through...
...sort of way; but Uncle Tom's Cabin was not. In his 87 years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...
...grade school, high school and junior college. Its $250,000 plant (43 buildings) is the result of contributions from Wellesley and Radcliffe College alumnae, of various women's organizations, who also pay its $50,000 yearly running expenses. It has electricity, but no telephone, no telegraph. Its post office is Pippapass, Ky.-in honor of New England Browning Society donors. In honor of Kipling, its headmistress's office is labeled...
While Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper shot big-gun advice from behind the lines and Lasky and the lawyer pow-wowed, Sergeant York just talked. He talked about not liking to leave his post as head of a CCC camp (soon to close), about maybe running for Congress (he can't under the Hatch Act). He wasn't sure he was going to Hollywood. He wasn't even sure yet, he said, that the Lasky deal was a deal.* But one thing the Sergeant was sure of-what The Life of Sergeant York would be like...