Word: planters
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...first Negro to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate (1875-81) was able, cultivated Blanche K. Bruce, son of a white Virginia planter and a slave, who was educated by a tutor, escaped to the North, studied at Oberlin College, and after the Civil War became a Mississippi planter...
...politician in the family is Arnulfo Arias, 64, Harmodio's younger brother and a Harvard-educated coffee planter. By all accounts, he is the man to beat in the May 10 election. Twice elected...
...Fringes. She was born in Martinique, the eldest daughter of an impoverished planter, and might easily have spent her life there except for a happy accident. An aunt became the mistress of the Marquis de Beauharnais...
...adventure called The Lion last year, Cinemactor William Holden, 45, pawed the ground a little himself after he caught sight of his costar, lissome French Actress Capucine, 30. Next the two were teamed in a Far East thriller called Wherever Love Takes Me, in which Holden plays a rubber planter and Capucine is a Eurasian schoolteacher who becomes his mistress. By that time Holden had a pretty fair idea where love was taking him. He announced that he was breaking up his 22-year marriage (two sons) to former Hollywood Star Brenda Marshall...
...eyes, a firm and gracious definition of face, and full lips in a wide mouth that is often shaped in a wonderful grin. Refreshingly, the sense of sex that this composite production exudes seems intended to reproduce rather than destroy the best of mankind. Her father was a tea planter in India, where she was born. She went to a series of English boarding schools and London's Central School of Speech and Drama...