Word: crankley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crankley was unhappy even as a father. Of his seven children, one was born dead, four others died before him. When Marx's daughter Franziska died of bronchitis, there was no money to buy a coffin. "Her little lifeless body rested in the small back room," related Jenny Marx. "We all moved together into the front room and when night came we made up beds on the floor." (A fellow refugee finally lent the Marxes ?2 for the coffin...
...perhaps a tragic accident-though its symbolism can scarcely escape a death-ridden world-that none of Father Marx's beloved children lived happily; the two daughters who survived him committed suicide. But he was to have other children. They came to him by the thousands. Dr. Crankley's spiritual children inherited in varying degree his three outstanding characteristics: pity, hatred and love of power...
...Marxism offered both reason and faith, both bread and miracles. Sharp ears this week could hear Karl Marx laugh quietly to himself on the Manifesto's birthday. The bourgeois, forgetting their own accomplishments, were remembering his carbuncles. "Yours forever," the old man seemed to say, "Yours forever, Dr. Crankley...
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