Word: joab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffused with the sense of death. But she is incurious about the odd fact that, until he was King, David was capable of begetting only one child, and that by an adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods...
Fifteen years later, in Caney Valley, a 16-mile-long, rock-rimmed gorge, seven miles from Hindman, Mountaineer Humpty Joab spoke a similar piece. The woman who heard him was Mrs. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to Knott County to get over a nervous breakdown. And she got over it. She stayed on, with $10 cash founded Caney Creek Community Center on Humpty 's 153 barren acres...