Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was a traveling salesman; his mother died when he was only four. Brought up by stepparents on a Maine farm near Newport, he gathered maple sap, milked cows. Milking was valuable training for a handshaking politician, Douglas says: "The hand movement is about the same...
...Nicol. The court held that the marriage was legal beyond doubt, that the girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice, but an order." The facts, Judge Caron. found, clearly established that both mother and priest had refused to let Jacob Nicol...