Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which turns work into "woik" and oil into "erl." He is the benevolent patriarch of a large, Irish-Catholic family, much like the ones he knew while growing up and learning the trade of a plumber. Meany and his wife Eugenia ("Gena"), now 78, have three daughters and 13 grandchildren, all clustered in the Washington area. There is a lingering air of life in exile about the family...
...drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted during Chopin's Nocturne...
...over 30 years. His weekly "Current Affairs" sometimes tilted at members of Britain's royal family. Gordon bridled at the suggestion that Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's cavalry-captain husband, be given a title. No British monarch, the argument went, has ever had commoners as grandchildren. "Well, wouldn't this be a jolly good time to start?" Gordon snapped...
Today's 84 living Rockefellers, he told the committee, have assets totaling $1,033,988,000, the bulk of them held in two trusts, one established by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1934 for his children and one set up in 1952 for his grandchildren. This figure, Dilworth hastened to add, did not include Rockefeller real estate or Rocky's art collection, valued at $33 million. Also outside the scope of Dilworth's estimates were the Rockefeller Foundation and other charitable institutions, whose assets amount to more than $1 billion...
...centers and grandparents--the retirement age for most people seems to be 60--for the children. "In the countryside you usually start to be old around 50, in my personal opinion," one student who's lived on a commune said, adding that while old women help look after their grandchildren as in the cities, old men generally just sit home if they don't feel fit to farm...