Word: liz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worlds. Nonetheless, they have their trials. For one thing, two of the girls have slipped out of the dormitory and disappeared into the night. Another bothersome fact is the existence of old Mr. Rock, a distinguished scientist who lives in a cottage on the school grounds with his granddaughter Liz, a cat named Alice, a goose named Ted and a pig named Daisy. The Misses Edge and Baker want Rock off the place so they can have his cottage. A third vexation: Sebastian, one of the instructors, is making a fool of himself with the old scientist's somewhat...
...England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed...
Beautiful Sophia was the youngest, reared by her mother as a fragile invalid only to shed her ailment when handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne made her his wife. The second sister, Mary, was the quiet one who married famed Educator Horace Mann-but only after sister Liz had made maidenly passes at Horace which included combing his hair. Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled...
...married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited, was a financial flop. Her Boston bookstore...
...Liz, with her indomitable drive and conscience, each new project seemed the one that would justify all past failures. No one could ever accuse her of being a fuddyduddy. In her old age she approved of the new electric streetcars and telephones and raised her firm Peabody voice for women's suffrage. Author Tharp's judgment seems fair enough: "A walking encyclopedia of worthy causes, and . . . something of a pest. . . But no one could accuse her of insincerity...