Word: orphaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Berkshire village of Cookham Dean was a comfortable little house called The Twigs, which belonged to a Mrs. Skrine. Mrs. Skrine also had a Cook-General, a button-nosed treasure of an orphan girl named Edith Saville who was excellent at making jam and bottling fruits. Mrs. Skrine moved away from Cookham Dean, and lent Edith the General to Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Frederick Churchill Sim who lived 100 yards down the road in a house called Old Barton. Later Mrs. Skrine sold The Twigs to a Mr. & Mrs. Stretch, who promptly renamed it Applewood. Under any name Edith...
Backing up an earlier pronouncement by Donald Richberg, new NRA chairman, that the NRA would be administered vigorously, the President told correspondents at his semi-weekly press conference that the NRA is not "the Little Orphan Annie of the administration--if is a very live young lady...
...Hershey Industrial School which does. In the school's account is a trust fund containing 500.000 Hershey common shares (70% of the total outstanding) which Founder Hershey turned over to it in 1909 when he lost interest in making money. The school teaches useful trades to 800 orphan boys who live in houses scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store...
...husbandless clients. Circuit Judge Frederick S. Lamb, sitting at Beulah as a one-man grand jury, summoned Brooks for questioning. Along went his adopted son Edward, a cripple who tended the herd of goats whose milk nourished the children. Along also went the wives of both men, and the orphan girl and two boys whom they were raising. Along, too, went Michigan welfare workers and State policemen who brought the accusations...
...last echo of the medical films which began in 1908 and which have been running with tiresome monotony ever since, appears at the University this week, with Tom Brown, the perpetual adolescent, in the role of a medical student and Anne Shirley playing the part of a highly imaginative orphan girl whose partings from Tom furnish the heart-throbs, tears, etcetera, in "Anne of Green Gables...