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...Lucinda's Arsena
Then for 20 minutes Dr. Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, fiftyish, principal of Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education...
...year: 1857; the place: Dublin's Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...
...because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned his mother next morning. Milt, his head aching...
...many couches, and a Brobdingnagian butane gas stove in the kitchen. The farm has 150 acres; there are 208 more acres on a neighboring farm, and 917 on the Rayburn cattle ranch 13 miles away. Sam's brothers, Tom and Jim, run the farm and ranch; his sister Lucinda, known to all as Miss Lou, is the mistress of the house...