Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberals knew that in Nicolet-Yamaska they had made mistakes. They had neglected grass-roots organizing. Their party was badly split in the district; they had run a weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...
...Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 61, father of six, conceded that large families had "problems" nowadays-but he was still in favor of them. "I find it very difficult to attach the word 'family' to a family of one. It is not easy to attach it to a family of two; but I begin to feel happier when it is a family of three...
...songs and dances, spent its raucous teens in brothels, cheap saloons and street parades. Armstrong came up from Jane Alley, a squalid, "back-o'-town" lane in what was then the toughest section of uptown Negro New Orleans. His parents were the nearly illiterate grandchildren of slaves, his father a worker in a turpentine factory, his mother a domestic. Never quiet, Jane Alley became a bloody ground on Saturday nights with razors flashing in the darkness and drunken curses ripping through the night. In the morning, police would come by to pick up casualties...
Painter Braque was born 66 years ago and was brought up in Le Havre. His father, a house painter, encouraged the boy's attempts to draw, but his teachers at the local Ecole des Beaux Arts wondered why. A slow, deliberate student, Braque accomplished nothing much until 1909, the year he teamed up with Picasso. The two became inseparable and for a while their work was almost indistinguishable. Together they invented "cubism"*-painting the visible world as if it were built of tiny blocks, and tumbling the blocks about at will...
...happiness. He met a young Polish Jewish girl at a seaside camp, and teased her as she scaled fish: "Such gentle hands and such bloody work." For a few harried months she lived with him, making him once again want to live and write. He even asked her Orthodox father for permission to marry her, explaining that he was not a religious Jew but "a repentant one, seeking conversion." But it was too late; his lungs were withering...