Word: children
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S. poured in gifts for the President, mostly neckties and wristwatches. Fifty children of Cabinet members and other officials were invited to a special White House Christmas party...
Only one occurrence threatened to mar the disciplined success of the rescue work which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then men, continued. Pilot boats, revenue cutters and other craft stood by to assist. Beneath a white pall, in a quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained...
Joshers. No community chest has Butte, Mont. But one pre-Prohibition day, some of Butte's businessmen, having a drink together before going home to carve the Christmas goose, were confronted by a starving beggar. Said he: "My wife is ill and I've got children who are absolutely certain Santa Claus is coming tomorrow morning." The businessmen took up a collection and decided thereafter always to take care of their poor neighbors for two weeks at Christmastime. They called themselves the Joshers Club and now, instead of community chestmen, beaming Joshers buttonhole the townsfolk to help Butte...
...Athens, Ohio, in 1827. John Quincy Adams was President. Grandmother Brown's forbearers were old Massachusetts stock who had moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a general store. There four of her eight children were born. Then "Dan'l got the Western fever," and they moved to Iowa, to a farm near Keokuk...
...Iowa four more children were born; one, a girl, died in childhood. The farm made money, but Grandma never liked it; she was glad when they moved in to Fort Madison. The Civil War did not touch the Brown tribe very nearly. None of Grandma Brown's sons were called to the colors; Morgan's raiders threatened once, but never appeared...