Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Esteemed William Esty Mydans, Ph.D., in TIME, June 1, cynically asks your authority for the statement that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am able to supply the information on the highest authority, namely, Fred Fletcher, tenant on my farm here. On the return of myself and wife from a winter's cruise in Illinois, I proceeded to empty the ashes in my furnace which Fred had attended to during our absence. I was puzzled to see no fresh ashes on the dump or any evidence of ashes except that the coal (anthracite...
...Battery of Virginia Light Artillery, was fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
Soon Lucian Fletcher began keeping company with a white girl named Frances Everett. When their eldest daughter was 8, the union was solemnized...
...Frances Everett Fletcher, widow of Lucian Fletcher, died, aged 87. She was survived by one daughter in Cincinnati, two daughters in Charleston, three great-granddaughters in Latonia, Ky., all the descendants of Lucian Fletcher of Lynchburg and all pure white. In 1932 in Chicago died Maria Fletcher Turner, Lucian Fletcher's chocolate-colored daughter by the late slave Mary. Of all his progeny, it turned out that Maria had done the best for herself in the way of worldly goods. She had married an enterprising blackamoor named Sheadrick B. Turner who had represented Chicago's Black Belt...
...well had the late Maria Fletcher done, in fact, that last week her white half-sisters and white grandnieces were more than willing to acknowledge their mulatto kinfolk in order to win from the Illinois Appellate Court the right to contest the late Maria's will in the hope of cutting a black foster son out of the late Senator Turner's tidy fortune. Commenting on her family's privy past, Lucian's white Daughter Flavonia Fletcher Coffey cheerfully admitted: "Father was in a good many scrapes...