Word: heirlooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tales of America's early history can rival the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Though every schoolchild knows it, present-day writers are beginning to realize that such heirloom images are fit for more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring...
...purse. But they are not to be censured for the failure, their high purpose is sufficient evidence of good faith in the matter. That they failed to gratify the dictates of their affections is immaterial. It is enough for the University that these men sought to preserve a Harvard heirloom for her sons...
...sold in Moscow, is bought by one of the rich Jobey brothers (descendants of the old gravedigger) and presented by him to his employe, young Count de Senlis, who wants to marry the daughter of a Chicago packer. The Count pretends the coronet is a family heirloom. The last you see of it is at the splendiferous wedding in Chicago: "After the ceremony the wedding guests crowded around it and gazed upon it with wonder and amazement...