Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week wrote Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking...
Died. Julian Hawthorne, 88, author, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost...
...General Johnson, who was to have spoken for the President yesterday, was ill and left town.* We are here. I believe a great national organization fighting for childhood in a time of crisis deserves the attention of the New Deal...
Died. Ellen MacRorie, 90, Scottish-born childhood nurse of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; in Hamilton...
...Born in the little town of Olive Oil. New Jersey, in 1912, Mr. Grabblestump passed an uneventful childhood spending his summers in Sidetrack, Connecticut, or Bar Harbor, and his winters in grammar school or the Reformatory. A common or garden variety of child was he, the kind that hides his food under his knife to feel his mother. His career in the secondary scats of learning was also uneventful, its monotonous rhythm being broken only by occasional changes of school on request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like...