Word: jamestowne
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...were the arguments over drinks and cookies before the judges returned from the jury room, asked four of the contestants to go over their scales. Frederic Langford's topnotes were the lustiest and Frederic Langford was fairly dithering when he knew that he had won. A native of Jamestown, N. Y., he has worked for six years in the Episcopal Church Book Store, recommending reading for women's auxiliaries, going evenings to the opera when he could afford admission to stand. Day after the contest a tinny borrowed piano was carted out of his rooming-house...
Clerking in a grocery store gave Claude Swanson the money to go to Randolph-Macon. There his close friend was James Cannon Jr., now the politico-religionist. He was long (1893-1905) a member of the House. The Jamestown Exposition was the biggest event of his governorship (1906-10). Twenty-three years in the Senate made him No. 1 Democrat on the Naval Affairs Committee. A Big-Navy man, he was sent as a delegate to last year's disarmament conference at Geneva, made his big speech in praise of battleships...
...Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured...
...Virginia came one John Rolfe, ambitious for gold but willing to work for it. He lost his young wife in child-birth but kept his faith in tobacco-planting. He and Pocahontas (now a semi-prisoner in Jamestown) fell in love and were allowed to marry, since that would give the settlement a permanent hostage against Powhatan. After several backbreaking, productive years, Rolfe had made enough profit to go to England for a vacation. There at last Pocahontas saw the wondrous sights John Smith had told her of; and there she saw again John Smith, a middleaged, broken failure. Spoiled...
...receivership). Meanwhile in Nashville, Tenn., the Leas prepared to fight extradition, had a lawyer sleeping in their big house to spike any attempt by North Carolina officials to kidnap them. Few days later the Leas suddenly disappeared. Reports that they had been arrested in the mountains at Jamestown were denied. Questioned as to her husband's whereabouts Mrs. Lea Sr. said: "The Colonel is very busy...