Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autobiographical. Hero Price follows Author Ruark's trail almost exactly as he grows up in a small North Carolina town (Ruark was born in Wilmington, N.C.) and gets his schooling at Chapel Hill, where he becomes involved with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best friend in a deal with a racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows...
...Europe." What is more, brags Belle, when her day as a gold digger was done, she did not dispiritedly rest on her shovel, but hurried home and dug herself a sizable niche in U.S. social history as one of the leading figures of the Prohibition era, the Texas Guinan of the champagne trade...
...under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads got broken by the hardwood chairs in Competitor Texas Guinan's ginmills, served 30 days in 1931 after Feds raided her 58th Street Country Club, went broke after Repeal and spent her last 20 years in a one-room Manhattan apartment...
Spawned in Chicago's Congress and Auditorium Hotels when sewage got into food rooms and water pipes, it was not detected until at least 1,400 victims had scattered across the U.S., caused close to 100 deaths. (Best-known victim: Nightclub Hostess Texas Guinan.) With earlier detection and better drugs, South Bend need fear no such disaster...
...heaven's. Its most famous "cottage" was Cornelius Vanderbilt's "The Breakers," now unoccupied but open to sightseers, which cost $5,000,000 and boasted 70 rooms (33 of them for servants). Newport's sauciest social queen was Mrs. Stuyvesant ("Mamie") Fish, who relished the Texas Guinan approach to guests. "Howdy-do, howdy-do," she would jabber at new arrivals. "Make yourselves at home. And believe me, there is no one who wishes you were there more than...