Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes reached 85 in Manhattan in good shape, spent the day quietly with his three children, nine grandchildren...
...tone of most of them was thoughtful, decent and concerned. They ranged from college undergraduates anticipating families of their own to a Midwestern farmer who is head of a line of ten living children, 42 grandchildren, 48 great grandchildren. Many told their hopes and plans for having more children. Many more discussed the contribution they expected their children to make some day to their country's future. Over all they expressed a vigorous satisfaction with a family life that, despite its difficulties, they "wouldn't exchange for anything...
Guests say that San Simeon has gone domestic; the zoo full of wild animals is gone; and Old Man Hearst likes to watch his children and grandchildren, and Miss Davies' in-laws, enjoying San Simeon's simpler pleasures, like swimming in the massive pool. The women of the household go in for homey pursuits like crocheting bedspreads or making lamp shades...
...House of the Seven Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built of such permanent materials as stone or brick. It were better that...
...unartistic quarter. He walks up; he hates elevators, telephones and other mechanical devices. He also has a country house in Normandy which the Germans raided in 1940, destroying the library and ripping up some of his canvases for blackout shades. Rouault's family includes six devoted grandchildren-whom he loves to take for silent strolls in the country. But even with his grandchildren, Rouault's large, intelligent, apelike face seldom breaks into a smile...