Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the early autumn of 1913, the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to guide the Federal Reserves bill through Congress and court the youngest of the President's three daughters. Because he, a widower with six children, was twice her age, he laid away his affection for...
Although information about Artist Smith is scant the history of most of the sitters is well-known. Reunited once more on the walls of the museum were men who had been friends and enemies. Sir William Phips made his fortune by discovering a wrecked Spanish treasure ship. An incompetent, wasteful...
Don José, known throughout Spain as El Bailarin (the Dancer), because of his tiptoeing grace in the arena, was a retired matador, living in dignified respectability in Granada. He thought he had a right to expect some of his three sons to follow in his own mincing footsteps. But...
In the Belgian Congo the dread tsetse fly, transmitter of African sleeping sickness, was a menace. The cinemactors protected themselves by anointment with a foul-smelling oil which repelled the tsetse flies. Miss Booth, however, contracted malaria and dysentery, fell from a tree and almost fractured her skull, suffered a...
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological...