Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the year, two honorary staff members and seven active Smithsonian workers died. Mrs. Rachel Turner, charwoman, was retired...
...Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value. Surrounded by youthful matinee idols who seem a shade too chipper in the roles of mature statesmen, Lionel Barrymore grunts, glares and snuffles to fine effect. Equally sure-fire is Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Rachel Jackson, who, about to expire of the miseries, charges Peggy with seeing that the President remembers...
...reason why Hollywood so rarely utilizes the obvious and profitable field of U. S. history may be the squeaks of indignation that result whenever it does so. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., Miss Fannie Walton, great-grandniece of Rachel Jackson, and the Nashville Ladies Hermitage Association made strenuous protests because The Gorgeous Hussy showed Mrs. Jackson as a pipe-smoking crone. Said Miss Walton, "I think it's a sacrilege...
...swamp by himself, distilling shinny and drinking what he did not have to sell. Bart had not been improved by going to the War. He got a half-wit girl in trouble, killed her father and pinned the murder on her. Only decent ones in the family were Rachel, who took good care of Old Man Roper and her pining sisters, and Cully, her half-nephew, who liked engines, planned to be a mechanic...
...swampy circumstance was too much for them. Rachel fell in love with a fey young farmer, Bill, who left her to mind the place while he lived a masculine life of hunting and drinking. And Cully found he wanted Rachel, his half-aunt, more than anything else. Rachel was flattered but firmlv faithful. When at last Bill came home and found Cully there, they had a fight, and Bill was killed. Rachel was going to turn Cully in to the sheriff, but Old Man Roper had better sense...