Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis is, of course, a Negro but not a darky. I expect Mr. Louis would much rather be dubbed "nigger," than darky. The word "nigger" dees mean something; darky is nothing at all. . . My dear father was at Shiloh with General Grant April...
...radio, the President said good-by to departing Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: "Please convey to your distinguished father [King Gustaf V] my warm personal regards...
...Father Swann's son Isaiah, brought up with the other children of the commune, came back from Yale with misgivings about the Other Plane. He wanted to marry Dinah, the pretty, credulous ward of the Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil...
...site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince had $20,000. Despite the opposition of Isaiah, Father Swann took...
...Ruth, however, with her stutter, her ability to play baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies, road shows, music lessons, the tangled plots and intrigues that flourished in girls' camps and high schools...