Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GRAMS BILL QUAINTANCE Rock Island, Ill...
...FLOREA Mount Morris, Ill...
...candidate, but that might seem too wholly political. Perhaps he should explain, in a dignified manner, why he was running. And yet he did not want to skim the cream off his first post-announcement speech at the dinner. For two days, at his farm home in Libertyville, Ill., he labored over his pronouncement. Most of the time he worked alone, but on the second day he called in staff members and tried the statement on them. He decided it would not do, went to work on it again. Then. finally having decided what to say, he was ready...
...find that the publication of Childe Harold had made him famous . . . 1890 saw the publication . . . of more than 80 short stories from his pen, many ballads and . . . a novel [The Light That Failed].'' Soon he was advising viceroys and was so famous that when he fell ill in New York (he married an American), crowds knelt in Seventh Avenue to pray for his recovery...
Dark Victory. In Springfield, Ill., after sternly cautioning delegates to the annual convention of the Illinois Association of County Clerks not to tell anybody about the surprise testimonial dinner planned for that evening, association officers went to pick up Guest of Honor Charles Lowry, discovered that he had checked out of his hotel and left town the day before...