Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter, unhappy ward of swaggering Colonel Ibbetson, lives in the memory of his childhood when as Gogo Pasquier he played in perfect happiness with Mimsey Seraskier. Mimsey grows up to be the lovely Duchess of Towers with whom Peter falls in love. In Paris, near their old home in Passy, the grown-up Gogo and Mimsey meet again. She teaches him that dreams are more important than reality. He kills Colonel Ibbetson and, committed to life imprisonment, lives in a blissful dreamworld with his Mimsey until the Duchess of Towers passes out of real life and comes to take...
...destroy patriotism and reverence for our heroes is bad, to blast the happy counterfeits that throng the precious memory of childhood is still worse, but to remove the stock and stay of the Latin Quarter is unutterable. Art galleries, painters, dowager dilettantes, lily fingered aesthetes, all down in one cataclysmic head. It must...
...conversation. But the primary purpose of the system is for communication between planes in flight and the ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif. As high-school students during the War they had "ham" (amateur) radio stations in their houses, would shout excitedly across the street to verify what signals they...
Miss von Wiegand, adept with her typewriter since childhood, described for Liberty last June how she obtained in Moscow, gratis and in a few minutes, a divorce from her husband who was then in the U. S. Last autumn Mr. Hearst gave her a commission as special correspondent in Russia...
...from the present world difficulties. We have been free from civil and industrial discord. The outlook for world peace has been strengthened. . . . The arts and sciences have been notably advanced. Education has been further extended. We have made gains in the prevention of disease and in the protection of childhood...