Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zeno Cosini, only child of a rich Trieste merchant, very early in his boyhood be came so preoccupied with introspection that he was soon a hypochondriac. A cigaret-smoker almost from infancy, he was constantly vowing to stop smoking. He wrote in his diary, on the walls of his room, the date on which he would smoke his last cigaret. The dates were soon in numerable. When his parents died. Zeno came into a fortune. He played with busi ness, gambled on the stock exchange. There he met shrewd, blunt Malfenti, who took a fancy to him, took him home...
...skeleton of a dead white woman who was part queen and part divinity. As Count de Prorok's party cross the desert in specially equipped cars- they meet a contemporary Caucasian tribe whose beautiful women wear no veils but whose men veil their faces and use rouge from boyhood...
Married. Senator David Baird Jr. of New Jersey and Mrs. Frances H. Smith, widow of a former business partner of Senator Baird; at the Toledo, Ohio home of Linwood A. Miller, president of Willys-Overland Co. Mrs. Baird is an aunt of Mrs. Miller. Senator Baird a boyhood friend of Mr. Miller...
...picture does. Few professionals could have made such a picture, nor could they quite destroy it with commercial cutting and retouching after the effort and money lavished upon it by courageous amateurs. It is the work of William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler, a young Harvard combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast was recruited from the Ojibwas of upper Ontario, with old Chief Yellow Robe of the Sioux, who three years ago inducted Chief White Eagle Coolidge into that tribe, and who this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April...
...born at Plaisians, Drome, France, where he spent his boyhood until he was ten. Then he traveled in Europe and Africa with his parents, studied at Turin, Italy, entered his novitiate at Monaco, France, where he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1878 he entered Woodstock College, Maryland, and shortly thereafter was called to teach at what was then Santa Clara College. Almost immediately he began to study the heavens; those aspects of the universe which many dismiss as "physical" he easily conceived to be other forms of "spiritual" evidence...