Word: dotson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...
...father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens at the Mystic Club ball. In 1931 her elder sister, Adele Townsend Jahncke Dotson, reigned over the Mistick Krewe of Comus at the most exclusive of the Mardi Gras balls. "Coco," 21, swims, golfs, rides, likes best to race sailboats. She was a favorite of the Hoovers, who sent flowers from the White House when she graduated from Miss McGehee's School...