Word: norton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never looked at or spoke to anyone; "Whispering Riley," who never spoke above a murmur; "Rosy the Tramp" who shaved his whiskers with a candle; Freddy Coombs, who thought he was George Washington; "The Drummer Boy" who never ceased drumming. But maddest and best loved of all was Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico...
Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
...dogs Bummer and Lazarus free. He rode as an honored guest on coastwise steamship lines, at tended in a front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under the reign of Herbert Hoover, were solemnly printed in newspapers. Banks cashed his modest, worthless checks and people took his imperial banknotes bearing...
EXILE'S RETURN-Malcolm Cowley- Norton...
...Coolidge, Mclville T. Copeland, R. H. Currier, Paul Dudley Dean, John H. Dorsey, William P. Elwell, Erland F. Fish, R. E. Forbes, James Ford, Frederick L. Good, Arthur N. Holcombe, B. J. Kathrewehre, Chester H. J. Keppler, Charles G. Mixter, James B. Munn, Nathaniel Nash, Daniel Needham, George E. Norton, John A. Paine, T. B. Pitman, Robert Soutter, Malcolm B. Stone, Max Talbot, Sidney M. Williams, Hubert E. Winlock, Paul C. Wolfe, and Miss Anne T. Eristoff...