Word: esq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cash, how could Boston refuse? It took two years to build the structure--which not only had market facilities, but a large meeting hall on the second floor--and when it was finished, the town voted "that in testimony of the town's gratitude to the said Peter Faneuil, Esq., . . . the hall over the market place be named Faneuil Hall...
...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...
...very carefully, because he was in debt; he owed Berenice more than five million dollars." Frankie Addams, who was nearly 13, sat with her eyes closed and wondered how on earth she could convince Berenice and the rest of the world that her real name was F. Jasmine Addams, Esq...
...childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which F. Jasmine Addams, Esq. wears to her older brother's wedding...
...deceived by apparent glimpses of things that do not really exist. The culminating point of all this-the hysterical excitement that surrounds her brother's wedding and her vain attempt to run away from home-merely marks the dividing line between awkward F. Jasmine Addams, Esq., and the poised young high-school student named Frances Addams, who smiles condescendingly at old Berenice, and murmurs: "I am just mad about Michelangelo...