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Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...
...eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same as me." And the old hand passed on the news: "He says he's a orphan." "Well, tell the orphan he'll soon be a sailor sick aboard this hooker." But John Masefield's two years on the Conway turned out to be one of the most...
Martin Doyle, 12-year-old New York City orphan, hungry for love and security, finds only condescension and haunting insecurity in the lavish country home of Mrs. Henry de Rendon. An in tense, morbid, misty character study...
Bellamy was an excellent reviewer. Discussing the works of such contemporaries as Darwin and Oliver Wendell Holmes, he wrote provocatively of strikes, schools, child labor, prison camps, Brook Farm. At 32 he married a 21-year-old orphan whom his parents had adopted at 13, settled down to write short stories and historical novels (Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, The Duke of Stockbridge). William Dean Howells hailed him as a new Hawthorne. Bellamy also put his savings ($1,200) into a new paper, the Springfield Penny News, and made it prosper before he sold it to his brother...
...India and South Africa will devote part of their time to building Gasoline Alleys on the Danube and giving every Hottentot a daily diet of Dick Tracy. In return, the Tribune-News syndicate's wide-traveling salesmen in the South and West will take Reuters everywhere that Little Orphan Annie goes...