Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Banking and Currency Committee's hearings on rent control were brightened by Mrs. Frank Morris, a well-dressed, belligerent landlady of Dallas who wanted all controls taken off. Said she: "I am fighting for freedom for enterprise. I am fighting for my children [one daughter, three grandchildren] and for their future." Asked Chairman Charles Tobey dryly: "Oh, tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?" Mrs. Morris: "I am an only child...
...house. He eats little, drinks no alcohol, quit smoking when he first went to jail. In recent years he has had serious stomach trouble. His only exercise is a walk when he rises, at 4:30 a.m. His only recreation is bouncing a ball across the room to his grandchildren. He has never seen a movie. He cares little about the world outside his country. Of 300 books in his Bombay library, every one is by an Indian, mostly about India...
...Wrote Steinbeck: "When my grandchildren speak of their sugarplum eroticisms I can say, 'You see? This is how it was in my day. This Dragon Lady, with the figure of a debutante (if debutantes have figures) was one of your old man's girl friends...
...great-grandmother). Weight: 6 Ibs. To James Roosevelt, 39, oldest son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and second wife Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 30: their second son (his fourth child); in Los Angeles. Name: Michael Anthony. Weight: 9 Ibs. 8 oz. Grand total of the late President's grandchildren...
...Adams married Frances Levering, daughter of Massachusetts' Congressman William C. Lovering, in 1899. He has two children, Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Mrs. Catherine Adams Morgan, daughter-in-law of famed Financier J. P. Morgan; nine grandchildren...