Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because she herself, at the age of 13, had helped to deliver one of the babies on the family's windswept farm in Corangie. Next day she had asked her mother whether she should bathe the child. "You needn't bother," Audley Bennet told her daughter wearily. "Dad drowned...
Whether it's the cold or the holiday atmosphere, liquor sales are up. One merchant, however, thought Harvardians themselves were "comparatively temperate this season," for most sales consisted of Scotch and brandy packaged up for "dad." But another observed that plenty of erstwhile ale-customers had been in for whisky in the past week...
Forty years ago in the Idaho hills Donald Kirk David's Dad handed out some advice: "Take all the time you want until you're 30, to learn about what you are going to do from the time you are 30 to 50, so you can do what you want to do after you're 50." The follow-through to this counsel has been near letter-perfect. Comfortably settled since 1942 in the top job at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean David staggered his career with eight years of teaching and learning at the School and fifteen subsequent...
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...Dad." His brother, Colonel The Hon. F. H. Cripps, wrote recently: "When Stafford was quite young he was very fond of giving advice to the elder members of his family. This earned him the nickname of 'Dad,' which still sticks to him at home...