Word: vashti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first step was when he fell for a beautiful "rebel hellcat" named Brandon Hawkes who led him on only long enough to frame him for the murder of a carpetbagger. The real murderer was her cousin Ranee Hawkes, chief gunrunner and suitor for a rich, fabulous Texas beauty named Vashti Silver, who had been commissioned by old Sam Houston to carry on his fight to annex Mexico. Released. Cantrell set out to get Ranee and Brandon-in different ways...
...able to get their fill of beer at the Commons, students usually congregated in a tavern and bakery owned by a Mrs. Vashti Bradish. Complaints to President Dunster accused Mrs. Bradish of harboring students "unreasonably spending their time and parents estate". Not wishing Mrs. Bradish's innocent calling to be discouraged, the president made an agreement that she should not serve students with more than a pennyworth at a time, or more than twice a week on the average...
...came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, who reigned 24 centuries ago 'from India to Ethiopia, that he put away his proud wife Vashti and espoused a modest, pretty Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when...