Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first boss, Lord Northcliffe. (He gives me advice, but I tell him, Chief, I never obeyed you when you were alive, why should I obey you now?'") Once he invited G. B. Shaw to a séance. When Shaw replied: "I gave up table-rapping in my childhood," Swaffer wrote back: "I thought that now you are in your second childhood, you might want to give it another...
...Count d'Orgel, in fact, was a lineal prig, living & breathing for social ritual The Orgels met François de Séryeuse at the circus one night and invited him to lunch. Soon he and Mahaut were talking about their childhood lives in the country. François words refreshed her like a gift of wild flowers...
...PRODIGY: MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (309 pp)-Norbert Wiener-Simon & Schuster...
Such, Such Were the Joys, like all of Orwell's writing, opens the shutters of society's dark rooms. The title piece details the author's intensely unhappy childhood in a pretentious English boarding school. It exposes the cruelty and fifth of the students and masters, and Orwell's own confused and exaggerated response with complete justice and no quarter...
Elizabeth Bennett's parents were United Presbyterian missionaries in the Punjab 46 years ago, when she was born. Elizabeth herself was sent to school in the U.S. when she was nine, grew up to become a high-school teacher in Haddonfield, N.J. But she never forgot her missionary childhood. After her husband died two years ago, she decided to go back to India. She got a job teaching in a school at Mussoorie, 100 miles north of New Delhi, and fortnight ago she sent a note to her mother in the U.S. saying how much she enjoyed being back...