Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat at stake, no important Representative is likely to be liquidated and the most engaging characters on the political stage are two young Boston blue bloods. Robert F. Bradford, now 35, is the son of the late famed Surgeon Edward Hickling Bradford in direct descent from Pilgrim Father William Bradford. Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, 31, is a son of the famed liberal Unitarian minister, Samuel Eliot, and grandson of the late, even more famed Harvard President Charles W. Eliot...
That was in 1858, ten months before John Brown raided Harper's Ferry. And like most plans in that period, Henry Adams' went up in gunsmoke. He stayed in Washington while the South seceded, then went to London when his father was appointed minister to England. The extent of English hostility to the North stunned him; an army was sent to Canada; Gladstone proudly put $10,000 in Confederate bonds; an invasion from Canada was momentarily expected; and Adams was in such despair that, even as an old man, he grew pale when he thought of that time...
...friends were dead and he was growing blind, are as sharp as anything he wrote. "I am in a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . . and the only difference is that I terribly miss your father's conversation and his dry champagne. . . . We ordinary people in Washington are no longer permitted to have it. The world is improved! We kill each other by the hundred thousand, without remorse, but "we are denied our dry champagne. ... I am sorry for the Germans; I am sorry for myself...
...strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student named Connie, married her in spite of his family's bigoted objection to her Catholicism. Then he lost his job and his father refused to send any money...
...take his wife home to live with his parents, go to work in his father's bank. After a year of that, Connie left him for good...