Word: campton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. When George Campton was growing up, his parents, John and Julia, like true Americans, never imagined that the accident of his having been born in France would have much part in shaping his future destiny. But that was before 1914, when theorists had definitely decided that a serious European war would be an economic impossibility...
...George in his twenties liable to immediate military service with the French Army. His parents, long divorced, found one common point of reunion ?their mutual desire to keep him as far away from the front as possible? a desire in which they were aided and abetted by Julia Campton's second husband, the millionaire Mr. Brant, who idolized George. John Campton had become a famous portrait-painter? Julia, as Mrs. Brant, had at last attained the riches and social success she craved? but what reality life possessed for each of them was bound up with George...
They did their best to save him, but he was too much for them. War worked its partial estrangement. He got to the front, was wounded, recuperated, went back, was killed. For John Campton that seemed at first to end things completely. Later the realization came that this much was true? that in spite of circumstance and accident, at least the boy, when he lived, had been completely his? Julia, Mr. Brant, the others, had at best had only a reflection of him. He, his father, had had the reality...
John Calhoun Baker, of Everett, Pa. Keuneth Sheffield Boardman, of Campton, N. H., Ernest Howard Crabbe, of Indianola, Ia., John Raymond Gardner, of Worcoster, Leon Goldberg, of Providence, R. I., Miltion Lyle Holmes, of Providence. R. I., Milton Lyle Holmes, of Hilo, Hawali, Richard Newhall Johnson, of Newton Center, Grant Kuhn, of Kenilworth, Ill., Robert Minturn Sedgwick, of Cambridge, Malcolm Dean Taylor, of Farmdale...