Word: harriet
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...children, whom the father never supported and frequently abused. When Chris, the youngest child, was five, the State of Michigan decided that his home was no place for him, instead placed him in its Children's Institute at Ann Arbor. A year later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than most of his 15 schoolmates, got pretty good marks in everything but conduct. was soon demanding special privileges because his foster mother was president of the school board...
...choosing that Captain Dale sell the ancestral seat to the "German-American Culture Society," presently launching his characters into vehement tirades of anti Nazi propaganda; furthermore he limits his point of view by making one of Dale's ancestors a rabid Northerner, and another no less a personage than Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...acquittal, went to the U.S., taught in a fashionable girls' school in Manhattan. She married Henry Field, a preacher-writer ten years her junior, and for two decades, until her death in 1875, reigned as a famous hostess in a Gramercy Park salon frequented by William Cullen Bryant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Morse, Fanny Kemble...
...Smith, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur E. Morgan, Herbert Hoover. But never did it forget that it was essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier. Other Atlantic contributors who have made literary history include: Robert Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry James Jr., Thomas Hardy, Lafcadio Hearn, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, John Galsworthy, Robert Frost...