Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After he left Enid, Bates spent $50,000 collecting evidence and affidavits to substantiate this proof. He published The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, This is that book enlarged; romanticized by the keen, sympathetic author of The Soul of Ann Rutledge and The Soul of Abe Lincoln...
...story tells of Bessie Hale, whom Booth, brilliant actor and darling of the gods, loved insanely, and who in turn loved Booth, under spring lilacs, "forever and forever." Bessie Hale married years later, but after Booth's departure she lived "a dead woman's life...
There was a ball one night in Washington whither Booth came late. Bessie Hale had dressed especially for him. She was watching, wondering. Meantime she waltzed to dreamy strains with a nice-looking young officer who was also, as many knew, an abject slave to her divinity. This was a tall lad, handsome, courtly. He had begged her hand time and again, receiving her refusals with cheery fortitude. Her parents preferred him to "the player." He used to send her stunning bouquets from the White House conservatory. He was President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert...
This particular evening, matrons saw Booth halt abruptly when he entered the ballroom. He blenched, bit his lips, stood taut...
...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...