Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This," said one who marked how Booth's blazing eyes fastened upon the broad blue shoulder of Captain Bob Lincoln and the delicious confiding form of Bessie Hale, "this is the fire of passion whipped high...
...book records no conversations between Booth and Captain Bob Lincoln. We are only told that, as the couple waltzed near him, Booth spun on his heel in fury and strode away. Pausing before his friend and confidante, Mrs. Temple, he blazed: "I am done! Tell her so; tell her to take her blue-coated son of a nigger-loving President...
...suggested that Bob Lincoln's attentions to Bessie Hale heaped fuel upon Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...
...original author had an idea of confounding the next nineteen or twenty by placing his heroine on the point of a matrimonial bob. Miss Prevost is to signify her choice of husband by either cutting her hair or leaving it long. Author number twenty-one finally staggered through with the brilliant solution of giving her a semi-bob. And that's the whole story, or as much of it as we shall put down here...
...late Robert ("Fighting Bob") Fitzsimmons Sr. was national middleweight champion 1897-1907, heavyweight champion...