Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil Red & Plain Ben" is a masterpiece of reporting. But you missed one bet. Where does Mrs. Warren Wright get such "neat" names as Whirlaway, Citation, Coaltown and All Blue...
...Mrs. Wright names the Calumet horses as most owners do-starting with the names of the sire and dam, going on from there with the aid of dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, friends' suggestions, etc. She has found that horses named after friends seldom turn out well...
...thing, Kent was dead-he had lost his job, and fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie Condon, wife of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the federal Bureau of Standards...
...Condon hit the ceiling; Mrs. Condon had given Kent a Bulgarian's address, but there was no showing that the Bulgarian was a Soviet agent. The FBI, he cried, was a "stupid" outfit whose report had been based on "false and malicious" information. "Who attacks my wife," he announced, "must take me on. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover owes her a personal apology. I hope he is man enough to deliver...
...miles away, Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, dressed in nightgown and slippers, was talking to a friend on the telephone. Her truck-driver husband was away on a night run. There were sounds of footsteps on the porch and men's voices demanding to be let in. She screamed for the friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn...