Word: orphaning
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...March 4, 1929, a romantic parallel could have been drawn between the two big destinies. Mr. Hoover, onetime orphan on an Iowa farm, had the power and the plans for making the world's most prosperous nation more prosperous and happy than it had ever been before. Mr. Eaton, whose birthplace, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, had already benefited from his financial greatness, had power and plans only one degree smaller. A potent public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest...
Joyce Cornvelt, South African Dutch girl, came back to Holland when her father's death left her an orphan. But the Leyden Cornvelts did not take to her very kindly. She was glad to pay a visit to the English branch of the family. The London Cornvelts were completely Anglicized and quite prosperous; they treated her like the country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody...
...John Brooks Henderson Jr. had to produce an heir for her Senator father-in-law in order to receive a $600,000 trust fund. For several months she put padding inside her clothes. Then she adopted Trixie from an orphan asylum, collected the $600,000. The Senator died without being aware of the deception. In 1923, however, an aged family retainer grew wroth with Mrs. Wholean and told the secret to Mrs. Henderson Sr. He had witnessed the reception of the child in the Henderson Jr. home. Last week District of Columbia Supreme Court papers were produced to show that...
Jungle clearing, rubber planting had gone so swiftly that Ford managers served eviction notices last week on several villages of Brazilians, including one that boasted an orphan asylum. The villagers answered by flying to arms, marching against the Ford adminstration buildings with loaded muskets. No one was killed, but before the flying Para policemen arrived, many buildings were wrecked...
...thin little story of Smiles has to do with a War orphan who is discovered and cared for by three comics and a tenor. When she grows up the orphan turns out to be Miss Miller who is universally loved and cherished. She avoids marrying a rich young man (Fred Astaire), weds the tenor (Paul Gregory). Most risible part of the program is supplied by the Astaires when they cavort in front of a smalltown band. And at one point Eddie Foy Jr., tipsy in Paris, can be heard singing a few bars of a song with lyrics by Ring...