Word: rhett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 49, blue-blooded, white-supremacist U.S. Senator from South Carolina; and Mrs. Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil, 47, widow of naval hero Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil (onetime commander of the cruiser Helena), each for the second time; in Charleston...
...Whistles. Then there were the performers themselves: "How come somebody doesn't. . . instruct certain of those hamfats in the ABCs of stage deportment? . . . 'Watching a love scene at the Met [wrote Billy, quoting a friend] is like seeing Gone With the Wind with Sydney Greenstreet playing Rhett Butler and Sophie Tucker as Scarlett O'Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year...
...Rhett is as virile as virile...
...existed in the Carolinas for 100 years, and in spite of all sorts of proofs that it cannot be true it continues on. It makes the Calhouns very angry and it also angers the Hanks family, many of whom still live here. Once years ago my father and Mr. Rhett Turnipseed asked Mr. John Edward Calhoun if it were true that Calhoun were Lincoln's father-John Edward Calhoun was sitting on the front piazza of the Calhoun mansion and he picked up a straight chair and said furiously to my father and Mr. Turnipseed, "Young gentlemen, you have...
...else (two full pages), closely followed by Henry James, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe. Nicholas Murray Butler, who usually gets more space in "Who's Who" than any other man, gets only 17 lines here. And the height of degradation for Mr. Butler is that he is followed by "Butler, Rhett, character in 'Gone With the Wind...