Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third and intangible reason is his kinship with the Pacific. He was born in Honolulu 51 years ago, as was his father 80 years ago. Castle Sr. rendered the Hawaiian monarchy notable service, was its attorney-general, its minister to Washington. He took a leading part in the movement for U. S. annexation. Lawyer, banker, public utilities man, Castle Sr. is today one of Hawaii's most venerable citizens (TIME, July 8). The brightest spot in the Tokyo assignment is the visit the son will pay the father between ships in Honolulu...
...whose fervor for a high Republican tariff is only equalled by his Quakerism, Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee brought in a report in which Grundy lobbying was vigorously flayed. Mr. Grundy was accused of being a campaign "revenue raiser." He was called a "hereditary lobbyist" because his father before him had worked for the McKinley tariff bill. Mr. Grundy's retort about "backward commonwealths" was swept aside as "obviously absurd...
...plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...
...warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get across the yard to the main hall maybe, but no further. They would have the steel doors of the hall closed. He studied it until he thought of a plan, then took Father Cleary aside and talked to him. . . . Automobiles for their escape? The gate open...
...LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING THE MOST COLOSSALLY MORONIC RESULTS STOP MY MOTHER AND FATHER FIGURED MOST SPECTACULARLY IN THIS STORY WHEN. . . ." (Prior to her birth...