Word: begat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child one visiting day. Later he escaped, gained legal release. After her husband divorced her in 1915, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw led a precarious existence, in vaudeville and second-rate night clubs. For several years she worked in Chicago, lately in Atlantic City...
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...
William Henry Beecher. (1802-89) was a dyspeptic minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures. Of his wedding he wrote: "Was married. . . . No company, no cake, no cards-nothing pleasant about it." William begat six children. Edward Beecher (1803-95) was for a time president of Illinois College. In a best-selling theological work called The Conflict of Ages he carried on the family trend away from orthodoxy. Said his father: "Edward, you've destroyed the Calvinistic barns, but I hope you don't delude yourself that the animals are going into your...
...into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These French cousins, distinguished by 24 vertebrae (the Arab has 23), begat the common modern horse. The Arab, meantime, was taken to Spain by the Moors. The Spaniards took him to America, thus completing for him a trip around the world back to the continent where his ancestor originated 25 million years before. The Americans had no horse until the Spaniards brought...
...Elbert Green Hubbard was twice married, begat five children, all living. Surviving also is his first wife, Bertha, mother of Elbert II, Sandy, Ralph, Catherine. His second wife, Alice, bore him one daughter and died with him on the S. S. Lusitania...