Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daniel Rupert Pitsenbarger, 89, of East Rainelle, W. Va., died leaving 182 direct descendants-five sons, five daughters, 64 grandchildren, 108 great-grandchildren...
...rickety wagon, an old gypsy said: "The past is dead. Gypsies cease their wandering. The race is the same but the spirit is going. Too many gypsies have grown rich. Even Coucou settled down. No one can take his place just now, maybe never." The old gypsy's grandchildren were busy admiring the shiny new trailer of a rich gypsy family camped alongside. On a lot nearby, young gum-chewing gypsies jitterbugged...
...must find out why we are misunderstood ... If the London Congress [begins] the solution of this problem . . . we will be doing a great deal to eliminate the causes of war. If in the measurable future we don't find some way of eliminating the causes of war, our grandchildren are going to find this world a most unhappy place in which to live ... That is important to me. I've lately had a grandson...
Toscanini was baptized a Roman Catholic, but has seldom gone to church in recent years, except for the first communions of his two grandchildren. He refuses to conduct without a heavy, brass-framed strip of pictures of his children in his pocket. (The strip includes a picture of son Giorgio, who died at eight in South America...
...university with grandfatherly firmness. He has often irritated trustees with his stubbornness, sometimes infuriated faculty members by prompting men regardless of seniority. Though he sometimes gets up at 2 a.m. and works until dawn, he always has time for children. Visitors often come upon him and his four grandchildren ("Gumdrops," he calls them), rolling and shrieking on the floor, while his wife ("Pistol Packin' Mamma") looks...