Word: fletcherizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Emily Fletcher went into her father's room on the morning after he died. "The blanket had been thrown off and hung beside the bed; the sheets seemed clasped between his legs and wound about his body. There was something hideous in his immobility, which was not the repose of sleep." Soon after that morning Emily's grandmother, Mrs. Elliot, came to live at Ashley House, and through its wide dismantled rooms there passed whining draughts of greed & hatred...
Emily's mother had never been able to forget the horror of poverty that had been her childhood. Even in Stephen Fletcher's life, spending money had been impossible for her. "She would dream of an immediate trip to Washington to buy fine things, such as new cloth for upholstering the furniture; then, by a natural impulse, she would touch the plush of the chair on which she sat and say to herself, 'But this is still very good.' " Her mother's arrival filled her with dread. "There was no true bond of affection between...
Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing...
...Summary: HARVARD YALE Henry, Salmon, g. g., Rudy Stolimeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Whitelaw Clark, r.f.b. l.f.b. Hersey Carr, Booth, Rudd, l.h.b. r.h.b., Robertson Rudd, Carr, c.h.b. c.h.b., Rumsey, Hitchcock Barnes, r.h.b. l.h.b., Harte Kerness, c. c., Wylie Driggs, l.o.f. r.o.f., Fletcher Vogel, Ryan, Bodde, l.i.f. r.i.f., Smith Haskell, r.o.f. l.o.f., Ashley, Everett, Brown Danielian, r.i.f. l.i.f., Sleath, Everett...
...American amity. Other observers connected President Coolidge's concern rather with such unfriendly ganda as that reported by Ambassador-to-Peru Poindexter (see Col. 2), than with Secretary Kellogg. The Hughes-headed delegation will be composed of: Ambassador-to-Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador-to-Italy Henry P. Fletcher, onetime (1915-27) Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Lawyers Morgan J O'Brien of Manhattan, and James Brown Scott of Washington, D. C., President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, Director-General of the Pan-American Union Leo S. Rowe. Whoever succeeds Enoch Herbert Crowder as U. S. Ambassador...