Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Arnow, who was born in Kentucky and taught school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
Rich, booming, and afloat with dull-eyed suckers, it is an irresistible target for shady operators, con men, burglars, jewel thieves and tired Eastern torpedoes-all of whom slip into sport coats and slacks on arrival. Murders are often bizarre. Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the "Black Dahlia," became the most highly publicized corpse in the country after a citizen left her slashed body on a vacant lot. A Mrs. Mary James was dispatched with more finesse-her husband thrust her foot into a box containing a rattlesnake, gave her a drink of whisky and then drowned her in the bathtub...
...until the very week before the races. Those who were accepted were mailed a crown-embossed badge of cardboard admitting them to the coveted square of turf upon payment of ?10 for gentlemen, ?7 for ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence to place bets with bookies. Last...
Other officers elected for a similar term were three directors: Miss Fanny H. Phillips of So. Hanover, Miss Elizabeth B. Nichols of Boston, and Mrs. James H. Townsend of Belmont...
Babb, Maurice of 708 South Elizabeth Street, Wichita, Kan.; North High, Wichita, Bair, Glenn Otis of 516 South Glenn Street, Wichita; North High. Benecke, Walter Ernest of 4532 Grant Street, Omaha, Neb.; Benson High, Omaha. Bigler, Frank Calvin of 121 North Emporia Street, El Dorado, Kan.; El Dorado Senior High...