Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents were people, and that Thurber grasped this unsettling fact quite early in life. Take his father, a man who "could rarely get the top off anything . . . was forever trying to unlock something with the key to something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours with six Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take his mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests...
...grateful to Madrid. Star of the traveling troupe: Franco's only daughter, pretty, strong-willed Marquesa Carmencita de Villaverde, who received medals, teetered over Jerusalem's cobblestones in high-heeled shoes, and inaugurated the first direct Beirut-Madrid phone linkup by chatting for 20 minutes with dad...
...Five-year-old Bobby Lemmon of San Antonio, Texas watched a TV horse opera with growing excitement, then ran to get his dad's .22 rifle, came back to blaze away at the screen. Standing over the family's shattered TV set, he calmly explained: "Shucks, the good guy needed some help...
...Widow Nolan, a summa graduate, opened Manter Hall. Until his death in 1923, he maintained a quiet, unobjectionable tutoring business. His name and work developed into something of a legend, and it was not long before his successors at Manter Hall could advertise: "Ask Dad, ask Grand-Dad, about the Widow...
...long last, Tom wangled leave to visit his wife. Last week, Ada was waiting with their 42-year-old daughter at Waterloo Station, as a heavily mustached man of 71 elbowed through the crowd leaving an incoming train. Ada prodded her daughter. "That's Dad," she said. Tom planted a quick kiss on his wife. "Hello, love," he said. "How've you been...