Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry was born in the same State as her husband, Iowa, some 50 years ago. When she was still in short dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals...
...Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week she stood in a smart Paris frock at the right hand of the Son of Heaven, and made gracious small talk in soft, Washingtonian English with the British Prince...
There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven. The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz. The night after the feast a father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...
...stood among his councilors, taller than any, "hot-looking, heavily perfumed" ?the new king. He was 18, golden-haired, pink-and-white, husky, gusty, eager to begin the business of running England. His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was for the glory of God. That was the fashion. Solidly behind him stood...
...youngest of big-university presidents was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of a mother who was graduated at Mt. Holyoke and a father who is now President of Berea College (Kentucky). Education has be come a Hutchins family tradition. The Youngest President's brother, Francis, 26, is head of Yale-in-China; another brother, William, teaches at the Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn...