Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Station. Once more Father Roosevelt was off to one of those family ceremonies which Roosevelts love. This time the event was Johnny's Day, the wedding-perhaps the last among Franklin Roosevelt's lively brood- of his youngest, John Aspinwall Roosevelt, 22, to Anne Lindsay Clark, 21, at Nahant, Mass...
...children began marrying, she began cutting down her collar pearls, row by row. First she gave James's bride a string of them, in 1930. Then Elliott's two brides, then Franklin Jr.'s. Last week she sent a string to John's fiancee, Anne Lindsay Clark of Boston-*the last of the old dog collar...
Engaged. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, concert pianist and sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; and Lindsay George Nicholas, son of an Australian aspirin manufacturer. Last fortnight Yehudi Menuhin made known his engagement to Lindsay Nicholas' sister, Nola...
...fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...
Laramie restrains his itching trigger finger until all the cattle on the ranch have been stolen and a madcap Lindsay girl abducted. Then the slaughter is terrific. Partly confirming Professor Whippie's thesis are strange philosophical asides that interrupt the gun play and suggest that even popular romancers are sometimes troubled by the moral of their tales. Staring at the dangling body of a rustler he has just lynched, Laramie reflects: "It [lynching] was a common practice, inaugurated ... in order to intimidate cowpunchers going wrong. Not greatly had it succeeded...