Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spending a week in the public reading room of the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. it comes to me. My wife and I read it from cover to cover. It is then sent to Cumberland, Md., to my wife's home, here it is read by her mother, father and three sisters. It then goes next door to the minister's, where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent to Huntington, W. Va., where it is read by a man and his wife-and from there, well, I do not know where it goes...
...fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos of the Progress the $2,150 prize money, the Prentiss Trophy, one leg on the Davis Trophy. The stalwart, suntanned helmsman of the Progress: Prof. George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saltwater friend of the Secretary of the Navy, father of Harvard's famed all-round athlete (George Owen...
Author Hurst's latest contribution to the heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond...
Memorable to the author is this tale: The President has allowed the children to go swimming with their clothes on. Mrs. Roosevelt, afraid that they might catch cold, bustled off for a homely medicine. " 'Father, won't you ask her not to give us ginger?' He looked at us quizzically. 'Children!' he said, 'I don't dare interfere. I shall be fortunate if she does not give me ginger...
...others from Walla Walla to New York." He weaves a fabric of enchanted mediocrity about the venerable Roosevelt freehold, "Sagamore" (Oyster Bay, L. I.), in a book that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation of the traditionally wholesome Rooseveltian manner...