Word: parented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parent Philips. In 1891, Dutch Engineer Gerard Philips borrowed 150,000 guilders from his banker father, bought a lamp works in the cheap-labor town of Eindhoven. Gerard, a few months short of bankruptcy, urged his brother Anton to try to sell Philips bulbs. Anton agreed, traveled gaslighted Europe, sold bulbs far beyond the plant's capacity to produce (his greatest coup was a 50,000-bulb-a-year order for the Tsar's Winter Palace). By 1912, the company was big enough to be incorporated (one share was worth 1,000 guilders...
...Parents often punish children severely for expressing perfectly normal instincts, especially sex. "The child would not be normal were they absent [but] frequently we see in the childhood of the alcoholic the basis for ego weakness in the false and erroneous attitudes fostered by the parent toward even the presence of these feelings." The child must learn that these instincts are not cause for shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising...
There was no money in the bank when Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born (January 1887). Roving, British-born Father Woollcott was an eccentric parent ; he played cards suspiciously well, became a natty secretary to the Kansas City Light & Coke Co., once went to bed for two years (he was tired), and spent his last years in an institution. His mother's fam ily were among the remnants of a once-flourishing, 19th-Century Utopian colony who lived in a rambling, 85-room house near Red Bank, N.J. Father Woollcott visited his wife, said "his disgruntled in-laws, "chiefly...
...Venezuela and claiming a Spanish father who was once Ambassador to France, Señor Shelley's gentlemanliness wrecked his latest effort. In return for some of the $20 bills, a fellow inmate offered the hand of his daughter, not in marriage. When Shelley indignantly refused, the pimping parent betrayed the man of honor to the guards...
...parent company, the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, C.R.P. last week offered the legal prospect of a haven from the franchise tax levied by the New Jersey tax collector. New Jersey uses the percentage of mileage of a railroad system within the state as a basis for its taxes on the railroad's earnings. Unfortunately, contends C.N.J., two-thirds of its mileage is in New Jersey, while most of its revenue comes from coal loadings that originate in Pennsylvania...