Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter: i) he is the adopted child of an English woman; 2) the orphan of her cousin; 3) her son, but not Phil...
...days of 1931 and 1932 it was our toilet paper. Before the war I was vitally interested in what happened to Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy and Moon Mullins. What did I care about their editorial policy...
Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...
Grape-Happy Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...
...Gray was a farm boy until he graduated from Purdue University in 1917, then became a $15-a-week reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Soon he was art-department handyman. In the early 1920s he helped Artist Sidney Smith (The Gumps), finally created a strip of his own, Little Orphan Annie, which is circulated in 345 papers and, with a circulation of approximately 16,000,000 daily and 20,000,000 Sunday, nets Artist Gray a six-figure annual income, enables him to live and work in an expansive home in Green Farms, Conn. There last week he concluded...