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Word: garr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After playing lying, lecherous, dirty Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road for 1,674 shows, James Barton announced he would quit the show this week. Rumored reason: squabbles with other members of the cast. Successor: Vaudeville Impersonator Eddie Garr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Business: Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...most prominent citizens got into serious trouble. Brigadier General Henry H. Denhardt, strapping 60-year-old War veteran distinguished for valor, was co-publisher of the Bowling Green Times-Journal, had been an able lieutenant-governor of the State. Divorced in 1933, he courted a comely widow named Verna Garr Taylor. One night Mrs. Taylor was found shot to death on a dark road, with the general and his automobile nearby. The pistol which had killed her was the general's and the coroner found traces of gunpowder on his hands. Nevertheless, General Denhardt claimed that Mrs. Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Seven Bullets | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Seven Bullets | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...General Denhardt was divorced by his wife of 28 years. Last June he met Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, reputed the most beautiful woman in two counties (Oldham and Henry). A respectable widow of 40 who was running her late husband's laundry business in La Grange, Mrs. Taylor soon became the General's dearest friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: General & Widow | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...close to making good on both boasts. What little dirt there is is pay dirt, and Producer Dowling has prodigally hired for his richly-set circus: clowns (Miss Dooley & Mr. Clark), dancers (Paul Draper & Hal Le Roy), singers (the Pickens Sisters & J. Harold Murray), travesty artists (Sheila Barrett & Eddie Garr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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