Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very happy to read the Sept. 19 article on Lisa Fonssagrives, till I came to the spelling of my name. I have been called Gravelneck, Drizzleneck, Dirtyneck and Hydranthead, but never has my name been so slightly misspelled [Gravneck]. The accompanying picture shows you how badly I feel about the grave injustice you have done...
...girl of the '80s read Macaulay and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, carefully refrained from eating between meals (no "pies, lies [or] doughnuts at Wellesley," Founder Durant had warned). By 1900 she wanted to be a Gibson girl, and a few years later, to the horror of her elders, she began sewing in class, missing vesper service and using such unseemly words as "prune," "pill," and "nifty...
...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
...East Orange High School during the '208, Margaret fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...
Mornings at 7. Young Henry gets up at 6 a.m. every morning. To save time, he shaves with an electric razor at the breakfast table, manages to read the paper at the same time. He is at his Des Moines office by 7, frequently returns to it at night. "No use of my going to a movie," he explains, "because I just think about the work...