Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier hats, the sailoy suits of childhood are laid away, but Harvard's happy children may yet look brave in braid...
While his normal speech is less ghostly than his microphone manner. "Tony" is the "peptomist" outside the studio as well as in. He looks much younger than his 40 years, lives with his wife (childhood sweetheart) and 11-year-old daughter in a Long Island apartment, has a summer cottage in Wisconsin near his birthplace...
...distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey Home in the West' were not written about tenements or apartments. . . . They were written about an individual abode, alive with tender associations of childhood, the family life at the fireside, the free out-of-doors, the independence, the security and the pride in possession of the family's own home. . . . Many of our people must live under other conditions. But they never sing songs about a pile of rent receipts...
...most vivid childhood memory" Scot MacDonald conjured thus: "It is very hard on a frosty morning. We have to get up while it is still dark, and we trudge a mile or two along a frost-bitten dirt road...
...German, French and Greek. Contact Man Lienau is still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb-We contacted Mr. Smith.' ... So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview, or talk to people, there can be no apology...