Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Addie Belle Barton of Mount Vernon, Ohio was two years old, she was accidentally shot in the eye with a BB gun, became so terrified that she lost her voice for good. At 20, Addie Belle silently conceived and bore an illegitimate child which her mother called Annabelle. Overcome by shame, Addie Belle Barton retreated with Annabelle to a bare bedroom on the first floor of her parents' old frame house. She rarely emerged, often locked the door, kept frisky little Annabelle well hidden from neighbors' prying eyes. Sometimes at night Addie Belle's mother would...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
...spectators, limp and hoarse, agreed that the race they feared might be as exciting as a warmed-over soufflé turned out to be just what last spring's publicity had promised: "the race of the century"-even more thrilling than the great Man o' War-Sir Barton (1920) and Papyrus-Zev (1923) match races...
...some fire in the people's bellies," was the cry of Republican Alf Landon last summer (TIME, July 18). A cry of Republican Representative Bruce Barton to young voters last week was: "If there is fire in your hearts and a thrilling faith in America-then come with...
...Said New York's thoughtful Representative Bruce Barton, up this year only for re-election to the House: "I believe we are going to have, maybe not in 1940, maybe in 1944, a Republican party worthy of being trusted to run the affairs of the country...