Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highways to everywhere, dental work for everybody, pensions for the old folks and bonuses for veterans-all this and more Earl Long promised the citizens of Louisiana if they would elect him governor. "Welcome" would be written over the capital door. "The governor gets his house free, and his groceries and everything free," Earl proclaimed, "and I want you all to come up to the mansion and have a cup of coffee. You might as well, because you'll be paying for it anyhow...
...late Huey's brother sounded almost as good as the Kingfish himself. What was more, Huey's 29-year-old son Russell was stumping the state for Uncle Earl, and Russell looked just like the Kingfish, right down to his curly hair, pudgy nose and slack chin. It was like old times...
...Copyright 1948 by Earl Shelton and Fred Henson...
...rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October as he drove to town in his jeep. Adds the ballad,* written by his gangster brother, Earl...
Whether for Earl Godwine's forgetfulness or the Abbot's enterprise, deferred punishment came to the island in 1099 when it was submerged by the sea in a storm. Lomea became one of the world's worst perils to shipping. Strong winds and tides pumping through the narrow Straits of Dover have not only built up the Goodwin's seaward side into an almost vertical wall, but driven ships into the sucking grasp of their sands. At low tide, the Goodwins are a desolate, brownish-grey archipelago; between 1824 and 1854, determined cricketers sloshed through four...