Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired poet of the Midwest, finally decided that Michigan was too cold for him, prepared to move to North Carolina. His new home: the Hendersonville house of the Confederacy's Secretary of the Treasury Christopher Memminger. With him in an auto-trailer he planned to take his wife Lillian and about a dozen goats...
Close to the peak of Old Screamer Mountain, looking out over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education...
Last week Lillian Smith, in the October issue of Progressive Education, reported verbatim a typical seminar. Miss Lil (as the pupils call her) is relaxed on the greensward, spinning an allegory. Her girls are gathered around...
...snatches: "All I can promise is a cozy little cottage. . . ." As usual, win or lose, Steve had bran flakes with peaches for dinner. But Grimm had a trump to play. For ten days he had rested Claude Passeau's ancient and ailing arm. After the third game, Lillian Grimm's floor-pacer passed a restful night...
...Tigers now led for the first time, three games to two. In two previous series, 1934's and 1940's, they had got that far and foozled. With Fireballer Trucks on tap, Steve (& Mary) O'Neill were sitting pretty. Charlie (& Lillian) Grimm had no choice but to come back with his trump after only two days' rest...