Word: grandchildren
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...examples fits the history of the distinguished James clan. The founder was an immigrant who grew rich after the Revolution. His son Henry had depressions, suffered greatly, finally reached a religious philosophy. One of the grandchildren landed in the hospital with manic-depressive psychosis. Two others were a famed psychologist and a famed novelist. (William James suffered for years from severe depression...
...sardonic sense of humor, a deliberate manner and enormous practical shrewdness, which has earned him the nickname El Zorro (The Fox). He has no hobbies, takes no exercise; his family life consists of daily visits to his daughter Delia's house, where he plays with his grandchildren (see cut, p. 40). A hard, patient worker, in the ten months he has been Acting President he has worked hard and patiently to perpetuate his Party in power...
Munro Leaf dashed off his fabulous The Story of Ferdinand in 40 minutes, with no more propagandist purpose than an oldster reading funny papers to his grandchildren...
...Forty-five years ago, everybody wrote love letters to Mrs. Campbell. I know she thought mine the best of the bunch, though personally I thought those of Burne-Jones more interesting. . . . Before the copyright expires they will, I hope, provide for the education of Mrs. Campbell's great-grandchildren, but they must wait till the old gentlemen who wrote them can no longer make them ridiculous by their white hairs...
Earlier Roosevelt Christmas celebrations in the White House were unlike the solemn Christmas of 1940. In the Roosevelt family, Christmas means the gathering of the clan, a hearty outpouring of Roosevelt high spirits, a time for children, grandchildren, toys, recollections, big family dinners, and loud family festivities at the unwrapping of the presents. So it was 51 years ago, when Franklin, aged 7, printed his card to his mother with all the Ns right side up, the Ss turned the right way around, and asking for "some little boats." So it was through the Christmas seasons during...