Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First stop for the presidential Constellation, the Columbine, was Minneapolis, where Ike was provided with a foolproof, all-American test of his popularity. Ten minutes before he was due to begin his speech to the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, officials ushered on to the stage beauteous Neva Jane Langley, Miss America of 1953. The screams and cheers which greeted Miss Langley lasted 35 seconds. When Ike appeared, the Jaycees, who represented some 2,500 U.S. communities, tore the house down for a minute and a half...
Forty-four per cent of the senior class will receive honors and four of them will graduate summa cum laude. Those getting the highest honor that Radcliffe can confer are Margaret Stuart Bryan of Cambridge; Nancy Harriet Goldring of New York City; Laura Jane Klein of South Orange; and Catherine Lucretia Rubino of Port Chester, New York...
...Brontë, an old man, craggy and almost blind. Her mission was to write a biography of Parson Brontë's daughter Charlotte, who had died of consumption only a few months earlier, at 39, in the full flush of her fame and notoriety as the author of Jane Eyre. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë proved to be one of the great English biographies. Dozens more have since told the Brontë story, but none with greater emotional intensity...
...Gondal chronicles on the wars of Royalists and Republicans in a mysterious kingdom of the North. Later, when Charlotte was a teacher, she found nothing more thrilling than a letter from brother Branwell reporting "news" of one of their old make-believe characters, "the Duke of Zamorna." Jane Eyre was a reworking of the fantasies of Charlotte's childhood, says Author Lane, while sister Emily's Wuthering Heights testified to a stony desire never to abandon the world of imagination for what everyone else called the world of reality...
...consistent, considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black, but in the Eve Black phase she became coquettish and informal to the point of recklessness. Moreover, Eve in the third person. Sample quote: "When Black knew Eve White, and spoke...