Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrated the children's beloved Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew...
Henry Bone, a white restaurant keeper from Waverly, had set out in his 1946 car on a drunken spree. At the wheel was "Blue" Pearson, his chauffeur for 15 years. Beside Pearson sat Roy Lee Johnson, who also had worked for Bone. Both, in the words of Mount Pleasant's white folks, were "good niggers...
...When Pearson drove into a filling station for gas, Bone found that he was out of whiskey. He yelled for more. Then he put on an act which he had used before: he shrieked that he was being beaten and robbed, then stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth. Scared, Pearson and Johnson drove off in a hurry (with Bone still in the back seat), were soon overtaken, dragged from the car and beaten by the hastily formed...
What had caused the break from 39.78? a lb. to 34.20?? Senator Elmer Thomas (who, Columnist Drew Pearson said, had been speculating in the market under his wife's name) charged that the fall was due to a bear raid, set the Department of Agriculture to investigating. The reason was much simpler: cotton prices were too high, had to fall...
Merry -Go -Rounder Drew Pearson started the business with a radio broadcast on American Action, Inc. Promptly PM, the New York Post, the Chicago Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, armed with ammunition from the Democratic National Committee locker, all opened...