Word: rhea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love him. Home from an afternoon of fidgeting in the ballpark, Lew is a fond father who likes to stretch out in the living room and turn the hi-fi to blasting-level for Dixieland or "grand ole opry" records. He amuses his children-Lewis Kent, 6, Madge Rhea, 2, and Mary Lou, three weeks-with his West Virginia version of yodeling...
...celebrated Scopes "monkey trial" (1925); in South Pittsburg, Tenn. A Fundamentalist himself, Raulston helped get Biology Instructor John Scopes, 24, indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his county high-school class by reading the opening chapters of Genesis to the grand jurors of Bible-belt Rhea County, presided at the trial as Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow relentlessly badgered Special Prosecuting Attorney William Jennings Bryan with agnostic Biblical quiddities. Baited by Darrow, Raulston snapped: "I hope you do not mean to reflect on the court?" Countered Darrow, gazing absently out of the window: "Well, Your Honor...
Extra Duty. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Reba Rhea, suing for divorce, charged that her husband, John C. Rhea, forced her to sit with a two-year-old girl while he went out with the child's mother...