Word: potter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL OF BEATRIX POTTER transcribed from her code writing by Leslie Under. 448 pages. Frederick Warne...
...lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs as her masterpiece-The Tailor of Gloucester...
...knows how many millions of Potter books have circled the world, but there are Peter Rabbits in many languages from Latin to Welsh, and the book still sells 40,000 copies annually in the U.S. Now, to mark the centenary of the author's birth, her English publishers have issued the massive private Journal that Beatrix kept from 1881, when she was 15, until...
Barrister-Papa Potter, who looked like a Jehovah chiseled in granite, had inherited so much money that he never bothered to practice law, spent his days at his club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that...
...court, which has long since demonstrated its sympathy for the civil rights movement, was well aware that such removal has become an important civil rights weapon. More than a thousand similar cases have been removed from local Southern courts to the presumably fairer federal benches. Nonetheless, said Justice Potter Stewart for the majority, until Congress changes the situation, "no federal law confers an absolute right on private citizens-on civil rights advocates, on Negroes, or on anybody else"-to disobey valid local ordinances...