Word: violet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles Federal jury convicted Mrs. Violet Wells Norton of fraudulently demanding money from Cinemactor Clark Gable on the ground that he as "Frank Billings" was the father of her illegitimate daughter Gwendoline born in England in 1923. Wrote Mrs. Norton to Gable last March: "You and I understand each other. We could have a swell time...
...cases full of flash bulbs and tiny candid cameras kept publicity hounds on their toes most of the evening in an effort to waste no longer their fragrance on the desert air. Although for this type of person the photographic mania may present no menace, to the modest, shrinking violet type it is definitely a disturbing element. Life may have been an invited guest to Leverett's party Thursday night, but to most of the other guests it was certainly unexpected. It is the forlorn hope of many, however, that when the preferred list is again made out, a reservation...
...thinking. No authority under the sun possess the power to root out any thinking, whether it be radical or reactionary. Authorities in the Middle Ages tried to root out heresy, only to see it spread like wildfire. The sole force that can root out erroneous thinking is the ultra-violet ray of truth. For "the vicious minorities whose motives are inimical to. . . the principles on which the Republic was founded" will never be shackled by a teachers' oath. These minorities are the heretics of today. And the Governor has decreed that we are afraid of heresy. It is an appalling...
...many a philatelist can (and probably will) inform you, the violet-brown likeness of the acrid old Unionist who marched through Georgia adorned the 8? stamp of the regular issue throughout the decade 1894-1904. That 40 years back Sherman was thus licked by innumerable Southerners (without poisonous effect) and that his likeness underwent besmirchment at the hands of many a Southern postmaster makes the present sputtering of legislative bodies in South Carolina and Georgia seem pointless indeed...
Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...