Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troubles were far from over. In August 1935, six weeks before her trial, she had announced that she had given birth to a son, "a gift from God in my time of distress." Remarkable to newshawks was Mrs. Muench's child-bearing at the age of 42 after 23 years of childless married life. When Dr. Muench, who is not an obstetrician, declared he was the attending physician at the birth, the press began to investigate. Soon they found an unwed Pennsylvania servant girl whose baby had been born in St. Louis and taken from her for adoption...
...German troops in Spain seem to be moving in equipped to settle down as an Army of Occupation. Should anything like 60,000 arrive, Generalissimo Franco would simply be Dictator Hitler's puppet. Meanwhile in Germany, decrees were drafted to keep in the Fatherland all men of fighting age (18 to 45 years); an acute grain shortage was admitted in the German press; frantic Nazi campaigns were launched to make Germans save bread crusts, "tighten their belts," and Naziland seemed to be preparing for some great effort next spring or sooner...
...Dancing, and the Art of Painting upon Glass." Peter Pelham was also a mezzotint engraver of real ability, made able portraits of Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist, in 1755 painted a miniature of redheaded Colonel Washington of Virginia, who was already known as a skillful Indian fighter...
...these facts seem improbable in this enlightened age, I can only explain my submission to Father Divine's influence by indicating that I am a colored woman of middle age, with unlimited faith in Divine Providence and a quickness and readiness, through a highly impressionable and emotional mentality, to believe in human perfection and the brotherhood of man. My husband, also colored and of my own age, regards himself as well read in the Bible, and has always sought relief from an inferiority complex resulting from the color of his skin, in the consoling thought of a blessed hereafter...
Shrewd New Orleans cotton men guessed that Messrs. Tullis & Craig had cleaned up nearer $200,000 than the $2,000,000 which was reported. Brisk, fortyish Partner Tullis is Commodore of the Southern Yacht Club, second in age in the U. S. only to the New York Yacht Club. Starting as an office boy, Mississippi-born Garner Tullis became a cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig...