Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1920s. the new century seemed to be talking (and worrying) more about sex than previous ages. "Frankness" became a respectable pose for cocktail parties, parent-teachers' meetings and literature. The novelists-Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...
...issued. Stock options have persuaded many a top executive to switch jobs. Example: Ford lured Executive Vice President Ernest Breech away from a top G.M. job by offering him an option to buy Dearborn Motors stock. James Nance quit Jlotpoint's presidency (and a promising future in parent G.E.) to take over Packard, with an option to buy 200,000 shares of Packard stock at $4 a share at any time until 1957 (current price of Packard stock: about $5 a share...
...four-year-old with a posterior no larger than the palm of an irate parent's hand is rapidly becoming the nation's most popular towhead. As a comic-strip character, Dennis the Menace is practically a member of the family for the readers of 200 U.S. newspapers. But this little one-man gang has also become something of a sensation between book covers. Dennis the Menace, published last September, has already sold close to 140,000 copies. Even a publisher could guess the sequel to that: More Dennis the Menace...
...Paris, staged a special show in its Musée de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Whistler's death on July 17, 1903, and the Louvre lent the painting for exhibition until this fall. After that. Whistler's famous parent, sitting so gravely and so quietly in her golden frame, will probably be shipped to the U.S.. so that Americans can have another look at the most popular of all American paintings...
When they met, secretly, it was love at first sight for Penelope and Philip. But what about father's consent? Penelope advised Philip to dress up as a curate. He did, and looked the part to perfection. What's more, he completely won over the crusty parent by quoting yards of Ecclesiastes...