Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then she goes back to her old home in Beldingsville, Vt., lives with her Aunt Polly. Here it was that she had arrived some years before (in Pollyanna), a forlorn little orphan determined to play the "glad game." This was the same little corner she had brightened before, and naturally it falls on its neck to make her welcome, it has not forgotten the wistful little minister's daughter who even found something to be "glad" about when a pair of crutches was all that came for her in the missionary barrel...
Died. Mrs. Mary Jane Coker, 86, aunt of the late President Harding; in Washington...
Decidedly, this most recent benefit of Science is not a thing to be left around where the children can reach it, or where it can fall into the hands of tiresome practical jokers. An overdose slipped into Aunt Emma's coffe, for instance, might make transportation almost impossible. In fact so delicate will be the business of applying Dr. Saike's remedy, that all operations might better be suspended until the ingenious inventor has had time to pound up another fish, equipped with reverse action...
...Carmen Sylva" was the pen name of Queen Elizabeth (died in 1915), aunt of the present Monarch and wife of King Carol I of Rumania who died on Oct. 7, 1914. She wrote with facility in English, French, German, Rumanian. The most noteworthy of her writings: Les Pensees d'une Relne (1882), Cuvinte Sufletesci (1888); two poems, Sappho and Hammerstein...
...Lord Kitchener" said he regretted that the lunacy situation was as bad in Great Britain as in the U. S. "P. T. Barnum" mournfully stated that "he had atoned in Paradise for all his little indiscretions and his formula 'The public likes to be fooled.'" The medium's great-aunt, "Julia Ward Howe," related haltingly the embarrassment of her first experience in the spirit world, when she found herself before the great "Judge of the Dead," clad only in "a very remarkable head of hair, my dear nephew, something like Lady Godiva...