Word: hewitt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THOSE WERE THE DAYS-Edward R. Hewitt-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...Those Were the Days Edward Hewitt describes the life of the Coopers, his parents, grandparents, brothers, friends, in an autobiography which is unique: it is full of information about everybody but its author...
...stairs. They crashed right through the front door, nearly killed themselves and their mother. who was coming up the steps. She made them stay indoors all day. The family had a gymnasium, fitted up for the boys over the stable, hired an instructor to teach them gymnastics. The little Hewitts cut trap doors through the floor of their gymnasium to make a secret hideout. When the police called, as they often did, Mrs. Hewitt used to direct them to the gymnasium, knowing that the cops would never find the boys. They never...
...orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...
Those Were the Days grew out of Edward Hewitt's stories to his grandchildren, and is as warmhearted as a letter home, full of untroubled admissions of failures and modest accounts of achievements, of unsensationalized disclosures of gigantic frauds, and an unself-conscious wistfulness. "I should be just as happy as I have ever been," says Edward Hewitt in conclusion, "if it were not for the fact that Mrs. Hewitt has become an invalid. ... If only I could get my wife well again, life would be even more enjoyable...