Word: grandpa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another beneficiary is Eleanor Post Hutton, headlined debutante. Scorning both alcohol and Grandpa Post's Postum, she consumes eight to ten cups of coffee a day during the party season...
...cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried with him the sum of $1.60. At the State Farm Pomeroy sulked in the sunshine. He was displeased...
...which grandpa wore when he was in college .... coat and pants (not trousers) which do not match.... all pockets bulging.... no vest.... striped tie with one half as like as not over a shoulder.... deceased crease in buckle...
...them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
...glibly laid open the flaws in school, college and camp life. It would indeed have been a shame had we not been treated to a few more of these depictions, and so they are within the covers of the present little volume. "A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas" at Grandpa's in East Russet, Vermont, is quite up to expectations and paves the way for the still better selections...