Word: augusta
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...Turn your head and count ten," said Washington Socialite Mrs. Augusta Trimble Fletcher, as she greeted a guest in her library. The guest obeyed, then whirled at the sound of a shot. His hostess had killed herself...
...talk of the region. They described the massacre of 12,000 Indians in the Battle of Flint Top-a battle no one had ever heard of. They showed that Greene and Washington Counties included earlier and more important cities than Pittsburgh. He had maps and descriptions of Razortown and Augusta Town, two famous "lost" towns whose sites had baffled historians...
...South and the nation in letters, on the bench, in the cloth, in medicine, the army and navy, and most famously in public office. Admiral William F. Halsey and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., belong to the same alumni association which nominally includes Pee and one Nathaniel R. Clanton of Augusta, Ga., black sheep of his class, who was killed on the barri cades of the Paris Commune...
...zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month novel whose harsh kidding of the Cracker Party and its dirty devices was lost on that organization's nonreading leaders. Last year Fleming's sowing reaped a triumphant harvest: the voters of Augusta kicked out the Cracker Party, and voted in a city-manager plan...
...doubtful whether Augusta's Crackers will see what Harvardman Berry Fleming is driving at, but most others will get his worthy point...