Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Jacob Lawrence was shy, but he felt at home; he had long ago decided to become a painter. His mother had encouraged him when he was still a kid: "It kept me off the streets." Within a few years, his flaming, semi-abstract pictures of Negro life hung in half a dozen top U.S. museums, and won him three Rosenwald fellowships. Only 30 now, Jacob Lawrence is the nation's No. 1 Negro artist...
...than work, so he sometimes falls behind schedule, despite prodding from his wife. Then his old cartoons reappear, "redrawn by request." "I couldn't work without talking to people," says Williams defensively. "I always have people here-cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making all that money out of them...
Billy the Kid. The other great event of Wallace's life was his term as governor of New Mexico. He reached Santa Fe in September 1878, to find his constituency deep in a bloody feud. The wealthy cattle firm of Lawrence G. Murphy & Co. had been threatened by a likable young Englishman named John Tunstall. So far, 23 men, including Tunstall himself, had been murdered...
Wallace tried to get grand jury indictments against the known killers. He called a meeting at the courthouse, attended by 75 or 100 citizens, all of whom were afraid to testify. Unexpectedly, a letter came from William H. ("Billy the Kid") Bonney, offering to talk: he had seen Murphy partisans kill Tunstall's successor. Wallace promised Billy immunity, agreed to meet him at 9 p.m. at the home of a Tunstall man. "The door swung slowly open, and there stood the Kid, a Winchester in his right hand and a revolver in his left. He was a mere...
...sent for,' said the Kid pleasantly, 'to meet the Governor at nine o'clock. Is he here...