Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ No other writer like Margaret Mitchell; such others as Caroline Miller (Lamb in His Bosom); Evelyn Hanna (Blackberry. Winter); Harry Lee (Fox in the Cloak); a tolerated museum of art, music club, theatre guild.
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¶ In Grant Park (named for Confederate Colonel L. P. Grant-no relation of Ulysses S. Grant-who designed the city's defense fortifications), the 50-foot by 150-foot Cyclorama, whereon is depicted the Battle of Atlanta in exact, stupendous detail.
Atlanta also has the fabulous Candlers (Coca-Cola); the Grays, who last week sold the venerable Journal (see p. 35); James H. Nunnally (candy) and Steve Lynch, who took fortunes out of Florida's real-estate boom; John K. Ottley and Thomas K. Glenn (banking); Southern Railway's...
One night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might.