Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing fascinates a Texan so much as 1) Texas; 2) another Texan. Thus, when news reached Austin a fortnight ago that the "Shooting Bull Detachment" of the "Texas Expeditionary Force" (both dreamed up by bored Texas flyers in Manila) had named Lone Star Governor Coke Stevenson CINCTEF, the homefolks called the whole thing mighty rich...
...Governor Stevenson, who once promised the U.S. that Texas would make no separate peace, promptly informed the Shooting Bulls that as soon as the Army had the Far Eastern situation in hand, he would send the Texas Navy to fetch them home...
Family Affair. In Stevenson, Wash., Beverly Jean Hays's mother and grand mother took their new boy friends along to watch Beverly get married by a justice of the peace, saw how easy it was and decided to make it a triple play...
...editorship of London, a literary weekly, Henley burst into the inner circle of the intellectual world with a bull-like roar and the sound of breaking china. Bearded, massive, gaunt, propelling himself vigorously on heavy crutches like a "maimed Berserk," Henley made a spectacular impression. Young Robert Louis Stevenson instantly selected him as model for the one-legged pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island...
...rising young writers, many of whom came to be known as "Henley's Young Men." Rudyard Kipling's earliest, most virile poems, Barrack Room Ballads, were printed first by Henley-as were the stories of the Polish emigrant, Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, sections of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the early lyrics of William Butler Yeats-and even the formal Henry James's What Maisie Knew...