Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandchildren now I've just twenty-five...
...oldest generation in the Jalna novels of Mazo de la Roche are just so many leaping adolescents, the doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy are scarcely of school age. For Fannie Hurst's Gregrannie at the age of a hundred is still managing her fortune, fixing up the grandchildren when they get into those readily-soluble jams that are so common in novels, looking after the great-grandchildren, endowing cancer research and writing a book. Gregrannie takes her meals with the fam ily, makes wisecracks with her offspring, reads French and H. G. Wells's The Out line...
...narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics when he was arrested for the death of a "peeler" that one of his friends killed. His passionate, pious, innocent sweetheart, Elsie Sherlock, saved him by telling the truth: he had been in the woods with her when...
...training to be a publisher. Moe Annenberg says he would not give a dollar for all the Old Masters in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Annenberg place at Great Neck, L. L, once the estate of Actor George M. Cohan, teems with in-laws and grandchildren, is "like an old-fashioned Milwaukee home." In his office. Mr. Annenberg smokes cork-tipped Pall Mall cigarets from a loose pile on his desk, apologizes for his occasional profanity, belies his reputation of being a mean, unsociable skinflint. The Annenberg winter home in Miami Beach is gay, but when...
Sirs: My name is Chase. I am more than 60 years of age and have five children and nine grandchildren. In your May 25 issue, I read that S. A. Chase comments unfavorably concerning your art section in the May 11 issue where there was displayed the figure of a slightly less than nude woman-Sunday Morning. To me this print was alluring and certainly proper from all viewpoints. Our young people in our private and public schools are taken to the art museums where there is more or less nudity displayed. Our public buildings many times have statuary...