Word: markeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Markey's mother had once forded a stream with Jesse James and "had spent half her life in parts of the country where more men carried firearms than carried timepieces." But still she had ideas about being "civilized" that seemed strange and irksome to a six-year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey...
Spittoons & Specials. Life became more exciting when Papa had to sell the claim he staked in The Run and moved his family into Enid. From the second-floor porch of the midtown office building where they lived, Markey was edified by a clear view into the high-fenced enclosures provided by Enid's saloons for patrons to sleep it off. "Gillespie Brothers was the best for sights. At Sunday-school time on Sunday morning you might see the forms of men who had been there all night, still as stiff as cordwood." Markey met the heavy financial demands...
...Markey James developed an early interest in history and read Froissart's Chronicles in Enid's one-room public library. He also studied up on the lives of U.S. Presidents. "My favorites were George Washington (though he seemed too good to be true), Andrew Jackson (for his refusal to clean the British officer's boots), Abraham Lincoln (he was such a good wrestler), and Andrew Johnson (the runaway apprentice)." But the profession that enthralled him longest-more even than stagecoach driver or railroadman or lawyer-was that of printer...
WILLIAM J. MARKEY...
...Bennett Wanger, 33, and Producer Walter Wanger, 48, her onetime boss: their first child, a daughter; after two and a half years of marriage, in Hollywood. Weight: 6 lb. She is also the mother of 15-year-old Diana (by John Fox), 8-year-old Melinda (by Cinemawriter Gene Markey...