Word: dora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rage north toward Cuba or Florida, assaulting everything in their path. Usually, however, they dissipate before they do too much damage, or veer out to sea. Only one out of four hit the U.S. They are ordinary enough so that they are systematically named, always after women-Beulah, Flora, Dora...
...life with Lady Constance Malleson. Writes Russell: "I want personal love to be like a beacon fire lighting up the darkness, not a timid refuge from the cold as it is very often . . . Oh, I am happy, happy, happy." He passes with equal vagueness from his second marriage to Dora Black and the first joys of paternity at the age of 49 through the divorce and into his third marriage to Patricia Spence when...
Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people-a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits." Carrington met him at a house party in 1915. He offended her one evening, and next morning she crept into his bedroom, intending to cut off his beard by way of revenge. Instead, she fell in love with him, and moved in to take care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named...
...introduction to the town was in a federal court-room in Oxford, Mississippi. There, on a sticky August day, three lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund had brought county officials to trial in a school desegregation case. First on the witness stand was Mrs. Lee Dora Collins, mother of nine and obviously pregnant, in her early thirties, she was well-built and looked strong. She unfolded her story without hesitation...
...want to thank Betty Grable for the wonderful job she is now doing on Broadway, and for her 15 months on the road earlier. I want to thank Eve Arden for those three months in Chicago last year, and Carole Cook for the Australian tour, and Dora Bryan for replacing Miss Martin so superbly in London, and Martha Raye for her stand this spring on Broadway, and Bibi Osterwald for her brief stands on Broadway...