Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a fleeting moment, he watches boxing on TV ("That's what I want to do when I grow up"), reads, plays the harmonica and guitar, helps a little with the household chores. Doctors offer little hope for further improvement. But, says his confident mother, Mrs. Mabel K. Werrett: "Love can do a lot, you know...
...meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...
...childhood in Jamestown (1920 pop. 38,917), but managed to see very little of it. Mostly, she inhabited a dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda, Mont. She read...
...Gotta look at the form. Gotta see what the horses can do What's that, Fighting Lewis? Say Mabel, ain't your brother's kid named Louie? Not, so loud baby. People's listenin...
...Were. In Mexico, N.Y., the Independent carried the personal ad: "George, please come home, the children need you, the lawn will need mowing soon and the garden needs a worm like you. Mabel, your loving wife...