Word: father
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trader. Richardson was born in the East Texas town of Athens in 1891, the seventh son of a farmer and cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout...
...French Actor Michel Simon as an old, overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries...
Then Sapphire's brother (Earl Cameron), a physician from Warwickshire, steps into the detective's office wearing the resigned half-smile of the perennial underdog. His skin is as dark as Sapphire's was fair. "Our mother was black; our father was white," he explains. "You never know how it's going...
...time is 1767, and great political and social changes are on the way. but the Di Rondo family is as impervious to change as only true eccentrics can be. When young Cosimo, an alarmingly imaginative twelve-year-old, has a run-in with his stuffy father, he climbs a big tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century...
...away with the most attractive young poet of the day, heir to a baronetcy and already married and a father. At 19 she wrote one of the great horror stories of all time, Frankenstein. For eight years the young couple-married after the suicide of the poet's first wife-skittered across France, Switzerland and Italy, keeping company with the brightest minds and most advanced spirits of English letters. When the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, died in a storm at sea at 29, his friends held a cremation ceremony on the beach, and one of them snatched the young...