Word: wencher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes chairman...
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