Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool, then-according to Author Pearson-absentmindedly mislaid them somewhere...
...PAINE, FRIEND OF MANKIND-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
...unnatural, and blasphemous by one single monosyllable-Paine." Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore Roosevelt testified that officially it was still open season on Paine when he referred to him as that "filthy little atheist." Author Pearson is not the first modern biographer to adopt the thesis that Paine's notoriety had its source in political rather than religious causes, but in his Tom Paine he gives more room than his predecessors have to the part played by Paine's personal makeup in turning...
...from that angle. The cast, though not phenomenal by any means, does a definitely satisfactory job. Robert Conness as the beefy-complexioned country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, handles his three twittering daughters and their erratic mother in the masterful fashion of a staid old Englishman. His wife, played by Molly Pearson, is the perfect simple-minded, scheming mother whose sole aim in life is to see her daughters married off before it's "too late". Lowell Gilmore epitomizes the title, "Pride and Prejudice", in his role of the tremendously aloof Mr. Darcy...
...Manhattan court last week, still another $1,500,000 rippled into the duchy's coffers, from the estate of Benjamin's widow, Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, who died last month (TIME, Sept. 14). Dukes still to be heard from were "Buck's" widow, Nanaline Holt Duke, and his rich and beauteous daughter, Doris Duke Cromwell...