Word: violet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern Violet...
...were ashamed and embarrassed by the vituperations of Tom ("Shrinking Violet") Linder. We thought his kind died "four score and nine years ago." We of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, who have fought and worked beside many of Georgia's higher-class citizens-notably Negroes-are inclined to believe that Linder is the "immigrant of lower standards...
What the hero has to forgive himself is the crack-up of two marriages. What the reader will have to forgive Author Christopher Isherwood is a second-rate novel that sounds no more than an echo to the stories Isherwood told better in Goodbye to Berlin and Prater Violet...
Sure enough, this week Shrinking Violet Linder raised his head and said that he would run for governor of Georgia...
...Habebit Humus. In Stafford, England, Violet Shaw, 64, learning that her late husband already had another wife when he married her in 1938, sued his estate for breach of promise...