Word: grandpas
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...Grandpa Firebrace has reached the age when he is only too happy to pardon all error, especially his own. His former son-in-law, Sir Roderick Shelley, strives to be an impartial judge, especially when it would cause him discomfort to take sides. Sir Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible...
...grinned Umpire Jocko Conlan as he looked over the Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. Some observers disagreed: it reminded them more of Willow Run or an Army basic training center. Whatever the word for Vero Beach, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey, the foxy grandpa of baseball, had brought mass production to spring baseball training...
...President Alben Berkley made a realistic admission, a luxury that an ex-Senator can afford. Caught between trains in Indianapolis, he explained: "I'm on my way to punish an audience with a speech." Meanwhile, in Washington, grandchildren Alben II, 4, and Dorothy Anne, 6, took advantage of grandpa's absence to check over his old Senate desk, and made a few marginal notes on his copy of the Congressional Record...
...want Philip!" chanted some of the crowd. "We want grandpa!" cried others. Some began singing Pack Up Your Troubles and All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor. Then the whole crowd had squared away in the inevitable British hymn of love, For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...Grandpa Thurmond's son John saw the South meet violence with violence. John studied law and hitched his star to "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman,* South Carolina's demagogic Governor and Senator. Ben Tillman had a short answer for the Negro problem. He told the U.S. Senate: "We shot them. We are not ashamed of it ... We will not submit to Negro domination under any conditions that you may prescribe...