Word: humiston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina of the 1880's, where a lady wore her skirts to the ground and refused a suitor twice before deigning to accept him, Ora bounced solemnly after the Methodist minister, pretending to be engrossed in good works, but caring mainly about his looks. Preacher David Humiston found Ora's trim figure as attractive as her piety but, as he sententiously declared, he could not take a wife until God had prompted his hand. When he met Ora's pretty, light-tongued sister Ellen, he forgot about God's prompting. Ellen got the wedding ring...
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