Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold the infants to the proprietors, a family named Hilton, for exhibition purposes. The Hiltons' daughter married one Rothbaum who changed his name to Meyer Meyers and took the twins to the U. S., where their stage and sideshow appearances earned enough for a mansion at San Antonio, Tex. and a portfolio of securities...
...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
...John nevertheless shares with most Britons a passion for exterminating what he understands by "cruelty to animals." He frowned black disapproval last week upon the "refined rodeo" now being staged in London by SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS He will put his police into disorder. U. S. Cowboy Maestro Tex Austin. First amused, then indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed...
...they would all grow up to rival Mary, Mona, Leota and Roberta Keys. 19. of Hollis. Okla.. famed because they reputedly are the only quadruplets ever to reach maturity. "The Bunch of Keys" graduated from high school last year, have just come home from Baylor University at Waco, Tex...
...Fort Worth, Tex., one W. D. May, mail robber and murderer, marched out of his death cell. Beside him, Rev. Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...