Word: wilkeses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South's civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O'Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O'Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett Butler for Scarlett O'Hara, could be read in any confession magazine...
The U. S. cinemillions had already unanimously voted that Clark Gable must play Rhett Butler. Selznick also bowed to them when he cast Olivia de Havilland as sweetish, big-eyed, thrushlike Melanie Hamilton, Leslie Howard as smooth, anemic, intellectual Ashley Wilkes, Laura Hope Crews as futile, flustered foolish Aunt Pittypat...
Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy...
First U. S. mariner to see Antarctica was Nathaniel B. Palmer, a sealer out of Stonington, Conn., in 1820. In 1840, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., sent by Congress, sighted its white peaks, declared it to be a continental land mass. To Palmer Land from the tip of South...
Paul A. Lamothe Hatty Ulen, ArlingtonNewhold R. Landon Harrlet Watzon, Wellesley HillsRobert C. Lewis Mary Ann Fotheringham, fit. LouisPaul D. Littlefield Emmy Nelley, Bronzville, N. Y.Richard S. Loomis Emily Hizzell, Suffield, Conn,John Lowell Kleanor Truinhull, WestonHarrinon F. Lyman Nancy Delano, WabanPeter MacGowan Joyce Russell, Beverly Hills, Cal.John McLaughlin Joanne...