Word: wootton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky Legislature at its last session passed a law for the regulation of nudist colonies. The law calls for the appointment by the State Attorney General of a Nudist Colony Inspector. Since passage of the law Attorney General Bailey P. Wootton has been beset by jobhunters, some of whom would have been glad to take the job without salary. Last week Mr. Wootton received an application from a nearly ideal candidate who wrote: "I am 80 years old, a good Democrat and well qualified in every...
...Grande, neither a guidebook nor a history, is something of both, covers in simple anecdotal style a big country, a spacious time. The easy-rambling narrative overtakes and passes historical figure after figure, never stays long with any: Indian Pope, the King Philip of the Southwest; Uncle Dick Wootton, who traveled 5,000 miles in unmapped, hostile country; James Ohio Pattie, who preferred adventurous hardships to riches and domestic bliss; Armijo, sheep-thief who became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly...