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...kids tackled it with imagination. Wrote Jean Francis: "I would collect my grandmamma in my father's car, and we would set off to get away as far as possible." Lesley Ann Brown also wanted to help others: "I would buy an airplane and take up as many friends as I could." James Hough would wait in the garden: "I would pray that it would land in the sea and do no damage." One girl decided to stab herself to death with a carving knife ("It would be quicker that way"). Billy Peart wrote stoutly: "I would make sure...
...TIME (June 23) as saying that she will never forget Winthrop Rockefeller "because there is an old saying that a woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." To speculate about the origins of this maxim is fascinating. Back in the days when old sayings were in the making, grandmamma took the place of television. When she was in the mood to remnisce, the grandchildren gathered round . . . She liked to talk about her youth, and one yarn went something like this: "The father of my firstborn was a Mr. Drybutter. He had a slack spade beard and a twinkle...
...special treat, she was allowed to have breakfast downstairs with her father & mother, the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandmother, Queen Mary. Birthday presents from family & friends were hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used the crop to thump the fat sides of her favorite white pony, Peggy. In the afternoon there was a children's party...
...young man partly blind meets a shopgirl on one of his walks, falls in love with her though he cannot see her face. But she is unable to stand up before his formidable Grandmamma, and their strange idyll is ephemeral...
...spiritual education. . . . "But you have been very kind to me! The hotel keepers learned, for example, about my dislike for warm rooms and adjusted the heat accordingly. You know, I am descended from Queen Victoria, who always sat in a draft, and I so often long for my grandmamma's draft...