Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ray flattered Deliphene, played with her 21-month-old baby Rainell, helped install an indoor toilet in her house, and finally became her lover. Martha was beside herself with rage and jealousy-particularly after Ray offered Martha $2,000 and the car to clear...
...Martha's elephantine passion was only fanned the brighter. She told him a secret too-she had always wanted to be a lady embalmer. Fascinated as a male spider about to be devoured by his mate, little Ray took her along on his larcenous travels...
...many ways, Martha was a fine helpmeet. When one of Ray's many wives-a Mrs. Myrtle Young-went to the Chicago cops and complained that Ray had taken her savings, steel-nerved Martha stood behind her and winked significantly at the desk sergeant. The sergeant advised Myrtle to see a psychiatrist; she died soon afterward of a cerebral hemorrhage...
Martha watched little Ray with a she-bear's jealousy, insisted on posing as his sister and sharing his honeymoon trysts. When he was wooing one Irene D. La Point of Springfield, Vt., Martha wrote the woman "hideous things" about him. Irene wrote: "You skunk-but I love you, darn it." The romance was broken...
...Hammer for the Bride. During one of Ray's subsequent romances-an elopement with an Albany widow named Mrs. Janet Fay-Martha intervened even more decisively. Ray promised to marry Janet, drove her to a New York apartment, and got her to turn over checks worth $6,000. But Martha quarreled with Janet, slugged the bride-to-be in the head with a hammer, and ordered Ray to strangle her with a scarf...