Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night rides through the black and silver of a moonlit countryside. Five minutes from the city, in any of three directions, we ride among irrigated fields cf alfalfa or cotton, orchards of citrus or other fruits, emerald grape vines, whence a cool moist breath rises in the summer air. . . . THELMA B. MILLER (MRS. Ross C. MILLER) Bakersfield, Calif...
Five thousand people live in the farming community of Reidsville, N. C. Smith T. Petty was a good deal like the rest of the men in the village, except that he sometimes got conspicuously drunk and beat his wife; on such occasions, his children, Alma, Woodrow Wilson, Smith, and Thelma, would stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty...
...including much historical data from the following: Geo. C. Powell; Terrell, Tex.; J. D. Campbell, Beaumont, Tex.; Boyd Lee Spahr, Philadelphia, Pa.; Nat. M. Washer, San Antonio, Tex.; Horace M. Mapp, Prairie Lea, Tex.; John K. Whaley, McRae, Ga.; Henry Sweeney, Ladonia, Tex.; William L. Sherrill, Charlotte, N. C.; Thelma L. Aldridge, Waxahachie. Tex.; David R. Locke, Ingram...
...enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd is good to look upon and seems slightly more than beautiful. Additional fact of striking import,--she hails from Lawrence, Mass! The John Murray Anderson show heads the divertissement which has shown a pronounced bigger and better pre-Christmas tendency of late...
Divorced. Harry Hays Morgan; by Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Trezvant Morgan; in Paris. They are the parents of the famed "Morgan twins," Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (widow of Reginald C. Vanderbilt) and Lady Thelma Morgan Converse Furness of London. Mrs. Morgan is the daughter of the late General Judson Kilpatrick, thrice Ambassador to Chile. Mr. Morgan, after 40 years in the U. S. diplomatic service, retired as U. S. Consul General at Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, the late Philip Hickey Morgan, was onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his son, Harry Hays Morgan...