Word: celina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irresistible. In Los Angeles, Raymond Adame, arrested for trying to kidnap Celina Jarmillo, explained to police what overpowered him: "I couldn't get out of her spell . . . she made me a sandwich of potatoes, beans and macaroni . . . she bewitched...
...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...
Billy Hull held on to his money, was worth around $250,000 when he died, mostly in real estate in Tennessee and Florida. He built a home in Celina, 15 miles west of Star Point; another at Carthage; a three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper." But to the end of his life he would go off to Florida for the winter with all his clothes in a cardboard valise, a battered tin cup tied to the handle, riding the caboose with the brakemen...
Captain, Judge. In the Legislature he stayed year after year, Lincolnian in frame and profile, quiet, serious, steady, until the Spanish-American War. From around Celina he recruited a company of mountaineers, joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment-dashing in his long Custer mustaches, big rolled hat. To Cuba they went too late to fight. Captain Cord Hull now turned his attention to poker to kill time...
Lawyer, Legislator. In little Celina, Cordell Hull began practice in 1891. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to serve in the Legislature in Nashville, before he was old enough to vote. In his first term he performed yeoman party service: Acting as lawyer for an elections committee, he helped throw out 20,000 ballots as fraudulent, thereby replaced an apparently elected Republican Governor with an apparently defeated Democrat...