Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles. He gives, in short, a strong suggestion that his childhood opinion of his uncle has not changed very much after...
...reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would not tell kings or commoners what they wanted to believe, he was imprisoned, hunted as a spy, nearly killed. When Jerusalem was laid waste, his last request -that...
...education, will find it possible to admire with spontaneous enthusiasm the one and only Snow White. Mr. Disney and his staff have created a fantasy as real as the illusion of life from the story by the brothers Grimm, a fantasy that will recall the most concealed of childhood memories. The wicked stepmother is very wicked, Prince Charming is very charming, and Snow White is indeed innocence personified...
Familiar friends since childhood's lonely years...
...Ford V-8 engines to enable the coaches to cruise about the country under their own power. Delighted with the steadiness of the coaches during tests at 50 m.p.h., Sponsor Hill-whose previous railroad experience consists of three weeks in the Great Northern shops at St. Paul during childhood-pronounced his cars "jounce-less...