Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand from Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt, who had been dunned for back church dues by his senior warden, was a reply, in effect: "Dad, if your check is still good, you pay my dues and when the war is over I'll pay you back." Also in Dad's possession was a foot-square slab of grey stone, a fragment of the bombed House of Commons, a gift from Parliament...
Boston's E. W. ("Dad") Liberty, in the skin game for 45 years, claims he had the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, among his estimated 65,000 clients. Much of Dad's recent work has been changing Japanese ladies into Chinese...
...mother insisted that her children be "unsectarian Christians . . . taking their religious inspiration directly from the spirit of the New Testament." Stafford absorbed her teachings, but quickly developed "a disconcerting habit of giving unsought, and often unwelcome, advice to elder members of the family." Result: his elder brothers dubbed him "Dad," and "the trait which earned the name has been a characteristic of his political life...
...When we first got back to Washington, we got in early on the train and came out here. When General Doolittle didn't find us at the station, he jumped into a cab and came on out to see us all. When Dad and Mother came to Washington to see me, Dad was anxious to meet Jimmy. I knew he was busy, but I called his office at the War Department and asked if my father could come down there to see him. Hell, he came out here to meet them...
Dear Mother and Dad...