Word: cora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographs, none at first sight was either attractive or unusual. The father, upper middleclass, Boer War vintage, was spoiled, conservative, selfish, in trade (kippers) but with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they...
...works when he has to, gambles when he can, is still more of a smart hobo than a dumb crook. At a California lunchstand and filling station he panhandles the Greek proprietor for a meal, changes his mind about moving on when he sees the Greek's wife, Cora. The Greek offers him a job. He takes it and in 24 hours Cora too. She hates her husband but has too much sense to run away with Frank. Instead, she suggests they murder the Greek. The first attempt fails, the second is successful. Then their troubles begin. Though both...
Almost Reilly "This woman, she's marvelous. . . . She tell Miss Cora about the stock market, and Miss Cora makes thousands and thousands just by doing...
Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
...damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began to move. With one arm full of roses, pretty Miss Cora Stanton Jahncke smashed a bottle of Mississippi water across the retreating bow, declaiming: "I christen thee N'yawlins...