Word: ector
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time is the olden days; the place, an assiduously merrie England. Principal characters are two boys-Kay, a toad of a child, and the Wart, who turns out to be King Arthur. Kay's father, Sir Ector, is a ruddy country gentleman who wants the lads to have a proper "eddication," decides to hire a tutor. By accident the Wart finds just the man-one Merlyn...
...living backwards in time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ector Pleasant, 56, wife of onetime Governor of Louisiana Ruffin Golson Pleasant; by accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom; in Shreveport, La. She was founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June...
Sued. Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued...
...form of subscriptions to the preferred stock of Cosden Oil Co. Joshua who had no money to put in was guaranteed 50% of the common. He shopped around in the oil field for months-looking for cheap oil lands. In 1927 he brought in a little well in Ector County, opening the Ector pool, and promptly sold a half interest to Texas Co. for $250,000 and two free wells. He bought a lease in Howard County that placed his new company in the Suttles Pool where oil was found at three levels. He built a large refinery...