Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomby Boyhood. Peter Cooper's grandchildren were such hellions that the City of New York had to keep a policeman at Gramercy ' Park to watch them. Using some giant firecrackers and a small charge of gunpowder, they blew up the policeman's hut while he was inside. Later they eluded the police by sawing a hole through the iron railings around the park. Once they constructed a fiddle to frighten the neighbors. It had a box four feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, and a bow twelve feet long. It emitted an unearthly bellow...
Those Were the Days grew out of Edward Hewitt's stories to his grandchildren, and is as warmhearted as a letter home, full of untroubled admissions of failures and modest accounts of achievements, of unsensationalized disclosures of gigantic frauds, and an unself-conscious wistfulness. "I should be just as happy as I have ever been," says Edward Hewitt in conclusion, "if it were not for the fact that Mrs. Hewitt has become an invalid. ... If only I could get my wife well again, life would be even more enjoyable...
Against Fatigue. The slow Allied advance led one officer to grumble: "We will not get back in time to see our grandchildren." But morale is very good. Colonel Hamilton told the story of a little red-headed private, an Irishman, who crawled within 15 yards of a German tank, knocked it out with his bazooka...
...Nazis. Many a Greek Orthodox priest has lost his life because he sheltered wounded British soldiers or in other ways offended the Nazi invaders. One priest was starved in a small cell for 28 days. Nazis forced another priest to witness the slaughter of all his children and grandchildren† except one, then he and the last child were tortured and slain. One abbot was dragged out of his small monastery by his beard, shot dead. A priest at Herakleion Cathedral, accused of aiding the guerrillas, was stripped naked in the sanctuary, forced to dig his own grave, then shot...
Writing in Science, the Columbia psychologist explains that he started with the "safe" assumption that primitive man prattled like a child while at work and play. Observing his own children and grandchildren, Thorndike noted that these babblings sometimes repeated themselves in connection with the same act or object, at first by chance, then deliberately. Thus a primitive man may have babbled "ik" as he poked with a stick or "kuz" as he dug up a clam, then repeated the sound when he poked or dug again...