Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week she could finally be seen in celluloid-not once, but twice. Hughes's $2,500,000 The Outlaw was ready for public release (first showing: Richmond). So was Young Widow, a picture Jane made for Producer Hunt Stromberg. Hughes had made his peace with some of the censors who growled after The Outlaw's San Francisco showing; he also did not want to be scooped by Stromberg...
...Bells of St. James's. Richmond's lawns were greening when he arrived in Virginia next day by train. There was a cold drizzle. Winston Churchill pulled a short raincoat over his striped trousers and black coat and got into an open car, gripping a gold-headed cane, puffing a cigar, grinning at the crowds from under his black Homburg. He raised his hand in the familiar V-sign. His old friend Ike Eisenhower was with him. As their car swished along the wet streets, the bells of St. James's Church pealed out God Save...
Virginia was a reluctant seceder. The state did not leave the Union until Fort Sumter was fired on and President Lincoln called for volunteers. In the first flush of secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...
Author Bill's Richmond swarms with society belles, refugees from the overrun plantations, speculators, spies, politicians, soldiers, officers, the dead, the dying. Here is the young Stonewall Jackson, speaking in a high, piping voice. Here is Cavalry General Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, brought to Richmond to die in a city too poor and gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits...
...Richmond's ordeal came in siege, smoke and fire. But before fire came hunger. In the ever more crowded hospitals, "a fat rat, planked and broiled, came to be recognized as a delicacy by the male nurses and orderlies." Before the end, even the rats had disappeared from Richmond's streets...