Word: althea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarah Althea Hill was born in frontier Cape Girardeau, Mo. in 1848, the year Louis Philippe lost his throne and General Zachary Taylor won the U. S. Presidency. Orphaned at 6, she was reared by a grandfather, migrated at 23 with her gold-seeking brother to California. Statuesque and golden-haired, sensationally beauteous, hot-tempered and flirtatious, she found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love...
...betrayed his business secrets, ordered his hotel managers to throw her out. They had to take her door off its hinges and pull up her carpet before they succeeded. Senator Sharon gave her a fat cash settlement, thought he was through with her. But after two years Sarah Althea produced a marriage contract she claimed they had signed, also displayed letters from him which began, "Dear Wife." The Senator brought suit in Federal court to have the papers declared forgeries. Sarah Althea countered with a State court divorce suit charging adultery and desertion, demanding large alimony and division of community...
...Hearst for Governor in 1882, helped keep U. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field of California from getting his home State's endorsement for the Presidential nomination in 1884. He had reason to regret that last move after he got into the Sharon-Hill case as Sarah Althea's lawyer...
...handbag while a court examiner was hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front-row seats. On the bench, doing the regular circuit duty then required of U. S. Supreme Court Justices, sat Terry's one-time colleague on the State Supreme Court bench and his longtime political foe, Justice Field. As he began to read...
...years after her husband's death, Sarah Althea Terry one day walked out on San Francisco's streets in a ballroom dress at high noon, eyes blank, lips babbling as they continued to babble until pneumonia stopped them forever last week...