Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exacting Parent...
WAYS OF ESCAPE-Noel Forrest -Little, Brown ($2). All blessings fell to Stephen Heath, arrogant brave, self-sufficient British parent. "Heath's luck? I look ahead and leave nothing to chance," said he. Yet his friend, Paul Kenyon, prophesied that he would pay for his happiness "to the uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting...
After a week of tense tennis, the finals of New Brunswick's championship tournament were reached, at Fredericton. Out of one bracket emerged Mrs. H. R. Babbitt; out of the other bracket, Miss Isobell Babbitt, Mrs. Babbitt's daughter. With the assurance of a parent and of a onetime All-Canadian Maritime Province and Provincial champion,* Mrs. Babbitt rolled up points; the first set was hers, 6-3. Her blood fired with youth's impatience, Miss Babbitt rallied to win the second set, 6-1. Nor did she pause at that. It was Mrs. Babbitt, ding, Miss...
Coth of the Rocks, Jurgen's pink, robust, mustachioed parent, goes westward looking for Manuel. He becomes involved with most of the queens and several younger persons on this pilgrimage, but at last manages an interview with his old chief. A western god blows him home-by most Rabelaisian means -to bowse, wench, let the absurd legend of Manuel grow, and to die in his sleep...
...capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation. His daily telegrams to Washington will be studied by long-range weather-forecasters, who, working on the theory that fluctuations in solar heat occasion all terrestrial weather disturbances, will warn farmers, mariners, aeronauts and the parent planning his child's picnic, of coming storms...