Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Peter Cooper ran for President, on the Greenback ticket, he got 82,000 votes. But he was one of the most wonderful grandfathers who ever lived. His prosperous glue (and gelatin) factory, at Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck...
...Peter Cooper hired a professional mechanic to teach his grandsons how to use tools and make things, gave away money right & left (but advised them not to), and told them, out of the reminiscent wisdom of his 92 years, about General Washington's funeral parade along Broadway, with the General's military boots slung over the saddle of his war horse...
Bomby Boyhood. Peter Cooper's grandchildren were such hellions that the City of New York had to keep a policeman at Gramercy ' Park to watch them. Using some giant firecrackers and a small charge of gunpowder, they blew up the policeman's hut while he was inside. Later they eluded the police by sawing a hole through the iron railings around the park. Once they constructed a fiddle to frighten the neighbors. It had a box four feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, and a bow twelve feet long. It emitted an unearthly bellow...
...Whom the Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou, Akim Tamiroff; TIME...
...Whom the Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou, Akim Tamiroff; TIME...