Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took Mrs. Battice six days to die. Mr. Battice also groaned constantly, in rusty irons. The crew grew restive. Captain Lawry would command one thing, Mate Mortimer another. More often than not they obeyed Mate Mortimer. On two days they refused all work...
...fame spread, Mr. Tesla grew more and more wedded to his work. He never took a wife. Before he was 40 he had revolutionized power transmission machines and Lord Kelvin had said of him that he had contributed more to electrical science than any other man. He worked, as he still does, early and late at his laboratory in West 40th St., Manhattan, dining alone at the same hour, at the same table in the Waldorf...
...night, under the same star, to life on erratic earth. Lilias Rabenstein was the daughter of an ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier but not less brilliant star than Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came...
Eager RUSTLE OF SPRING- Clare Cameron-Doran ($2). When Clare Cameron was a little girl she lived, like her contemporary, Author Thomas Burke, in the slums of London. Her parents were stodgy, honest, bourgeois, with numerous aunts and cousins. Clare grew up with a longing for "finer things." This document of her callow years is marred by an overdose of sentimental estheticism and a dismaying lack of humor. She seems a little too sure that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography...
...another act and I am playing my part." In November, 1853, in the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, a son was born to one John Drew, an Irish character comedian, and his extremely versatile actress-wife Louisa Lane Drew. The child, christened John, had a sister, Georgie.* Both grew up in the repertory atmosphere of the old Arch Street Theatre, subsequently managed by their mother...