Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Junction. In Memphis, Andrew Jackson Poulton, en route from Farwell, Tex. to visit his brother after a 32-year separation, sat on a park bench, bummed a match from a stranger who turned out to be Thomas Jefferson Poulton, en route from Maydee, Tenn. to visit Brother Andrew in Farwell...
...family called him "Babe" and spoiled him. With the world to play in and his oldest brother, Edward, as tutor, he had a good time. No flaccid sissy, he hunted, golfed, flew, drove his cars faster than the English law or the winding English roads allowed. Sometimes he drank doubles. He knew how to use four-letter words, and how to use anger to dispel opposition. He enjoyed women and slick music, danced well, blithely played the piano and sang his own lusty versions of the season's tunes...
...continued rolling up mileage, selling good will for Britain: 15,000 miles on a Canadian tour with his brother, Edward; 18,000 miles on a South American tour with Edward; 21,000 miles on a South African tour on his own; 8,000 miles on a Canadian and U.S. visit last year...
When his country went to war, the youngest brother buckled down to business, patiently carried out his share of the duties prescribed by officialdom. For Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin he inspected factories and mines. For the Ministry of Home Security he visited groups of women knitters, admitted he was "quick with the needles, but not good." When the R.A.F. appointed him a welfare officer with the rank of Air Vice Marshal, he thought the station too high, arranged his demotion to Air Commodore...
...went to Wall Street. He worked himself into a paralytic stroke. By the time he came back home there was nothing left to live for. Son Van had made the penitentiary at last. Loraine and her mother had encountered social and mental disaster in a sometimes successful try at Brother William Faulkner's sort of tragedy. Old Man Towne's one friend, his lawyer, had been unable to prevent the gruesome lynching of his one good child, Wee Boy. The bankers were forced to sell every inch of land Old Man Towne had ever owned. When...