Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...
Through night, another day, and far into the next night, the indomitable Father of Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...
...bore him the present Mme. Jacquemaire. Then he took her back to Paris?on the dread eve of 1870?where she bore him Michael and "Le Petit Pierre," now a businessman in Lima, Peru, where he raged last week at the slowness with which bulletins trickled in about his father...
...Second Empire fell, young Dr. Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
...from France last week and which she humbly gave. "He asked that there be no state funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged out a 21-gun salute while the Father of Victory was buried in a hole dug in a briar patch at his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, a bleak region