Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator meanwhile witnessed a go-minute sham battle staged in one of Rome's great squares by 30,000 Fascist boys of sub-military age. Trained since early childhood to handle Army rifles, they blazed away with blanks last week, also fired full size artillery pieces from which sheets of flame leaped six feet into the air until the mimic battle reeked of smoke. "Make of your souls well-sharpened daggers!" The Dictator told his boys...
...gulp the result." Because she was lovely, and because she had a tormented understanding of the troubles of others, Gloria could live that life without losing an appealing quality that won people to her. The secret of her sins and her despair lay hidden in experiences in her childhood and girlhood, when men old enough to be her father had corrupted...
...initial success of the Manhattan campaign for less noise brought joy to Ernest Henry Peabody, 66, a combustion engineer. Because John D. Rockefeller Jr., a childhood friend, showed no interest, Mr. Peabody, whose business runs itself, spent $1,500 of his own money on antinoise propaganda, collected $700 from friends, hopes others will help out. He eventually got action out of the Mayor by giving a new name to an ineffectual League for Noise Abatement. The name which Mr. Peabody invented is the League for Less Noise. The old name got no results...
Remember the Day (by Philo Higley & Philip Dunning; Philip Dunning, producer) is a fragile, Tarkingtonian tale of the pangs of childhood, in which are to be seen the growing or just-grown offspring of some notable stage folk. The cast includes the late William Hodge's daughter Martha, Ed Wynn's son Keenan, Author-Producer Dunning's daughter Virginia, Moffat Johnston's son Peter and John Drew Devereaux (grandson). Mr. Dunning has had a sign placed over the stage door: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Unspoiled Children in the World...
...Nevin was born in 1862, son of a druggist and newspaper proprietor. Naming him was an inspiration. "High-strung" as a child, he grew up to look like his name. He took his first music lessons at 8, published his first piece at 11. He married Anne Paul, a childhood friend who bore him two children. During his short life, Nevin studied continuously in the U. S. and Europe, turned out a constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist...