Word: leah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough to shock blood out the tyrant's nose in a murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife...
...familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before impressionistic scenery. As artists detached from the world on the other side of the footlights, they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture and movement, she speaks eloquently to those in the audience with whom she cannot communicate through the medium of language...
...daughter Leah, "the Pearl of Kimberly," mistress of unstinted millions, became involved in a love affair with Woolf Joel (son of her father's nephew, Solomon Joel), quarreled with him (he was shot down later under mysterious circumstances), married and divorced a poor violinist, and has now been married a total of three times to Carlyle Blackwell (U. S.-born, onetime famed British cinema actor) with whom she lives vivaciously in Europe...
...Margaretta, Kate, Maria and Leah, who came to public notice out of Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848, with strange knockings. Despite Margaretta's confession, late in life, that their knockings were accomplished by loudly cracking their double-jointed knees and toes, the Fox sisters were last year voted a monument, to be erected at Rochester, N. Y., by the International Spiritualist Congress at Paris...
...sisters were four-Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first...