Word: hookless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hookless Future. "I was born in the midst of vast cotton plantations," Mary's story begins, and things "were about as they had been during the days of slavery." Ashton Hall-the Kimbrough place close to the Jefferson Davis house on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi-featured all the regulation black nannies and the beaux whose only weakness was the bottle. A gallant gentleman named Jerome Winston was Mary's fiance. Alas, there came the day when Daddy, old Judge Kimbrough, pronounced the terrible words: "Jerome Winston is not worthy of the love of my little daughter." Before...