Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After 23 years of confinement it escaped and became the symbol of a revolt of the beggars. A grim and horribly concluded love story runs somewhat amuck among the episodes of war and death...
...wealthy and socially scrupulous families. All have anxious and extensive waiting lists. Among Bostonians at least, Groton may be said to have achieved the loftiest prestige of this kind. Its graduates, "Grotties," are unmistakable. They boast: "A Groton man wires to Dr. Peabody as soon as his son is born. Others generally think a letter is quick enough...
...even more interesting than the size, suddenness and secrecy of this corporation's advent, were passages of two clauses buried in the application. The corporation sought the right "to perform any act permitted by the law to the end that . . . every child may enjoy the right to be born well, reach school age well, and be fit mentally and physically for American citizenship"; and the power "to set aside out of surplus and not profits ..." funds to carry out the ideals expressed above. These funds might be used in "building hospitals, recreation grounds, and helping established child welfare organizations...
...Durant, reared in Michigan although born in Boston, was seemingly a man beaten financially. That year he was forced out of his controlling interests in the General Motors Co. and the Chevrolet Motors Co. The former he had organized in 1908, three years after he had organized the Buick Motor Car Co. Between 1908 and 1909 he bought the Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmobile and Northway motor companies; in 1915 got control of General Motors and also organized the Chevrolet Co. All these he lost at a swoop in 1920. But the very next year he rebounded by organizing Durant Motors...
...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...