Word: filially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babies nothing remains save the dim figure of a kind uncle, and a phrase, "Wants shee wheels go wound." Hector My Dog, Bob Son of Battle, Stviss Family Robinson; even The Jungle Books, the Henty Books, Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger, and Little Lord Fauntieroy's lace collar and filial perfection* where are they? Gone, all gone, yet once the child that knew them not was plainly a barbarian...
Lucky the mother whose sons succor her in an hour of need. Luckier the mother whose sons, in their time of plenty, come with filial presents and a heart of gratitude. Chicago, mother of vast fortunes in grain, machinery, mail-order goods and department store wares, last week rejoiced over two costly filial presents. From John G. Shedd, aging board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., came a third million to add to two he had promised for the construction of a ne plus ultra city aquarium in Grant Park. From Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck & Co.), came three millions...
...energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds...
...simple tale, and simply told. But those who read it will remark it strange that Lampy glosses over in a line or two the question of his origin. Some will call it filial ingratitude that he not even mentions who his parents were. The matter always has been shrouded deep in mystery: no wonder Lampy hesitates to talk about first causes. Lampy's simple statement that a note somebody passed in classroom brought him forth, is even more at odds with nature than a virgin birth. Therefore, the CRIMSON, who remembers well the scandal incident to Lampy's birth...
Thus the U. S. saw fit to promote the observance of the Fifth Commandment not by law. but by a well-organized "Day" * celebrating 100% filial piety...