Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading your story about Harlan County, Ky. [Feb. 23] was like reading of a favorite old relative who had died. My father, a doctor, began practicing medicine there in the '20s. A schoolteacher we knew there, rumored to have given aid and comfort to an Internal Revenue agent, went out one morning with his daughter; he sent her back to the house for their lunches, stepped on the starter of their car, and was blown all over Harlan County by the dynamite explosion...
...scrapped the hearing aid altogether if he had grown up with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school at twelve, Pamela...
...observation of the growing neglect of youth'' wrote Samuel Phillips Jr. a few years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, has "excited in us a painful anxiety." To allay the anxiety and cure the neglect, the 26-year-old Phillips persuaded his father and uncle to make a gift of lands and cash for the establishment of a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing. Arithmetic, and those Sciences, wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
...certainty is the more horrible because her family will not believe her story of the crime. They first ignore, then mock her. "Hilary, I hate a liar," says her father. Her wambly, 17-year-old stepsister Janet is too busy with a married schoolmaster to watch over her charge. Auntie Florence, nearly 80, who combs the beach for "anything and everything" and hides her treasure in a cave, is absorbed in herself. Only Hilary's younger brother Peregrine, whom she alternately pets and patronizes, shares her "delicious fearfulness." But eventually even he fails her. And when Hilary...
...answers: Elizabeth was illegitimate in the sense that her father, Henry VIII, had his marriage with her mother, Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good...