Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...
Howard's father, Howard Robard Hughes Sr., was not exactly a nobody, although he came from a place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...
High Horse. In Joplin, Mo., cops spotted a horse and rider wandering erratically down the street, quickly jugged the rider, despite his indignant claims that he was perfectly sober-the horse was drunk...
...flown on to Maine, and fortunately had been vaccinated), she had only a hazy notion of the bus's route, remembered that it had stopped at Laredo, Dallas, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. Checking bus routes, the investigators figured that LeBar probably also stopped off at San Antonio, Tulsa, Joplin, Indianapolis...
Baited Breath. In Joplin, Mo., Robert Kelley, after an eight years' sore throat, finally had it Xrayed, learned that he had a 3½-inch fishhook stuck...