Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legend was proudly celebrated as a national fact. Kentucky's rotund Senator Logan made a speech and ladies dressed in crinolines tittered and played hostess in "Federal Hill," the old home of Judge John Rowan. Bardstown believers were commemorating the birthday of a Rowan relation, Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster...
Bardstown believes that Stephen Foster drew inspiration for famed "My Old Kentucky Home" from "Federal Hill." Some Kentuckians further claim he actually composed it on the spot, during a visit in 1852. John Tasker Howard, Foster's latest, most authoritative biographer (Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour: TIME, Jan. 22, 1933) doubts the story. He thinks it unlikely that Stephen Foster visited Bardstown later than the 1840's, points out that the original title of the song was "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night," that "Uncle Tom" was the song's hero, not ''My Old Kentucky...
...trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery seats. He won a scholarship to a dramatic school...
...doses of castor oil gravely injured a U. S. Army doctor's career last week. Lieut. Colonel Bertram Foster Duckwall of Fort Clayton, Canal Zone ordered an oil purge for an enlisted man with an injured foot. Another soldier suffering from appendicitis received a similar dose. Seriously injudicious were those purgings, decided a board of Army officers who court-martialed Lieut. Colonel Duckwall and ordered his promotion to a colonelcy, when due, delayed a full year...
...gloves he walked with his consecrators through the Cathedral, blessing his flock, returning to the altar to utter thrice a well-wishing Ad multos annos. In all the great crowd none beamed with greater pride upon the consecration of Bishop O'Brien than his 73-year-old foster mother who had been rolled in for the ceremony in a wheel chair...