Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable...
...seducer is a parent, the child becomes doubly preoccupied with problems of family relationship. There is surprisingly little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often be kept in children's institutions with immunity...
...intuition of every player in his role. Norton Goodwin in the part of Charles Tritton trembles and wavers and broods just as he should. He is an English medical student whom one follows through a Scotch university. During the course of the play he exchanges an earthy, ebullient childhood sweetheart (Bettina Gray) for a skyey, placid sculptress (Lois Hall). That is the essence of the drama, and the cause of the various spasms...
Died. Henri ("Père Gaspard") Chèron. 69, longtime government finance expert member of twelve French Cabinets; childhood playmate of St. Therese of Lisieux (the "Little Flower"): of peritonitis; in Lisieux, France. In 1934 he was ejected as Minister of Justice for supposedly bungling the Stavisky scandal investigation...
Piers, Lord Sparkenbroke, was a dazzling child with the mark of genius on his pallid brow. Because of an intense experience in his childhood, his poetic imagination took on a somewhat morbid tinge: he worshipped love, life and death as aspects of a trinity. This attitude, with his handsome face and title, made him a devastating lover but an unsatisfactory husband. While his adoring wile and son lived for his infrequent visits home, Sparkenbroke loved, suffered and wrote in his villa in Italy, with his valet, a kind of super-Jeeves, as his only steady companion. Though apparently he wrote...