Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Killed 50,310. Wounded 182,674.'' On the right was an accident scene with the legend: "PEACE-Motor Vehicle Accidents. 18 months ended June 20, 1935. Killed 51,200. Injured 1,304,000." Few days later Commissioner Valentine's daughter and two grandchildren were cut and bruised when their car collided with a parked truck in Mineola...
...Manhattan's East Side, a rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky. There were...
...This is not for us," Frederick Weyerhaeuser told his partners when he bought his first acreage west of the Rockies, "nor for our children, but for our grandchildren." Frederick had by that time begotten John Philip and three younger sons, three daughters. He had settled in a great house in St. Paul, whose richest citizen he was. But with shyness and dislike of ostentation characteristic of Weyerhaeusers to this day, Frederick's house was not quite so big as James J. ("Empire Builder") Hill's next door...
...Down to Washington's Navy Yard went the President to greet returning Antarctic Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd. Cannon boomed a 13-gun salute to Admiral Byrd, a big-gun salute to Secretary Swanson, two 21-gun salutes to President Roosevelt-a prodigal display which left Grandchildren ''Sistie" and ''Buzzie'' Dall quailing...
...Hoffman." Until a few years ago he never permitted Mrs. Hoffman, his five daughters and a son (who died last January) to call him anything except "Father." Lately he endures "Papa" from the grown "women, especially when they say, "Papa, here's a present for you." His six grandchildren dare to call him "Grandpa" and pull his beard...