Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here where the Adamses, father and son, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, McKinley, Roosevelt and a score of other devoted men worked. Here worked Lincoln. It is a room crowded with memories of the courage and the high aspirations and the high accomplishments of the American presidents...
...father needs your help, and as he is unable to come here from Atlantic City and lead the way himself, he has asked me to deliver his message to Philadelphia, that the regular organization ticket must be nominated tomorrow if our city is to have the high place in the sun she deserves...
...lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi; General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. A. retired; James William Crabtree, Secretary of the National Education Association. Honorary Chairman...
...auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...
Scholar Abbe Niles definitely fixes the father of "blues" and therefore grand- father of all jazz as William Christopher Handy, colored, first (1910) composer in the national idiom...