Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Civil War in the border State of Ohio feeling ran high between the Abolitionists and the Southern sympathizers. The Goodhues, who had originally come from Kentucky, were Union men but bitterly against the Abolitionists. Pa Goodhue was one of the most respected men in the neighborhood but he would have been wiser to keep his political opinions to him self. The Bristowes were nobodies but they were on the right side of the fence, and they had a game-warden in the family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish...
...luncheon with her, eats in his shirtsleeves when the weather is warm. That Miss Farrar's energy and determination have outlasted her once raven-black hair was proven last summer when on the way to the Salzburg Festival, Nazis stopped her German chauffeur, refused to let him pass the border. Miss Farrar got out of her car, hiked a good five miles into town...
...playwrights. But they have managed to produce a drama which entertains, although it does not always convince, by placing their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good...
Most Catholic prelates pursed their lips last week on the painful subject of Mexico. At El Paso, Tex., however, busy Bishop Anthony J. Schuler cried as he prepared to welcome clerics expelled across the border: "We are ready for anything from those rascals and scoundrels in the Mexican Government...
...citizens during Mexico's 1910-20 period of revolutions. Graduated from the University of Virginia, Oscar Underwood Jr. was in Paris as a law clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then to France in 1917, did not take off his uniform until 1919. Now 44, he is identified with the anti-Bonus American Veterans Association, is a partner in the Washington firm of Underwood & Kilpatrick, is currently engaged in practice before the German Mixed Claims Commission...