Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senses unreliable. The play and its players have chilled London for several months with their tale of two Oxford undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet whose lurching gait, acquired in the War, is misshapen, horrible...
Chronicles of more regent date make it clear, that Miss. Claire's personal glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need...
...dozen policemen rushed from offices in the Prefecture to collar Murderer Philipponet and clap him into a cell he screamed: "Monsieur Bayle committed an act of bad faith! My document was genuine! What I have done was worth the death of a father of five children...
...Rand" in upper New York state stands for "Banking" as much as does "Giannini" in California. Just dedicated is the Rand Building, tallest of Buffalo skyscrapers, a memorial from Banker Rand to his father, George Franklin Rand Sr.,? remembered as an able banker and a mainspring of Buffalo finance...
When Senior Rand was killed in an airplane crash in 1919, Buffalonians knew little of Junior Rand except that he was 27, had worked in all the departments of his father's bank, served in the Y. M. C. A. during the War. Of this obscurity Banker Rand quickly divested himself. That year he became assistant secretary of The Marine Trust Co., the next year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust...