Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's in the City...
Diplomats, nobles, ecclesiastics, ex-royalty and representatives of reigning royalty filled the stands and ramps of St. Peter's when a glittering procession moved into the Basilica. Attendants waved great ostrich-feather fans, as the frail Holy Father, deathly pale, entered seated on his high sedia gestatoria (portable throne), garbed in a vast white cope...
Robert's mother, father, teachers and the manufacturer of his size 37 shoes said that he was "obedient," "bright," interested in Chinese checkers, ping-pong and girls, ate little more than an average man. He was also kind to little children. Dr. Louis Henry Behrens of St. Louis said that he was a normal boy except for his size and his "beautiful hands...
...Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...
Some of them: Lawrence, who changed his name (to Ross, to Shaw) was not really named Lawrence at all. In a letter to Robert Graves he says: "My father took name of Lawrence (not even my mother's name) when he left Ireland." He was never letter-perfect in Arabic; says he: "Feisal called my Arabic 'a perpetual adventure...