Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak to the sons of professors differently from the way you'd talk to some of the tough Cambridge kids. In general you can quiet most restless children with a smile, but if you threaten them they'll take your dare. If you're reasonably decent to them, they'll behave and you won't have to kick them...
...reporting his death Meantime Ochsner got a divorce in Goldfield, Nev., later married one Lena Jessie Nelson, who for no apparent reason became known as Nancy. They had two children, were divorced in 1925. Wife No. 2 married a man named Warren E. Baldy of Carson City, Nev., and restless Mr. Ochsner went on to Wife No. 3, Miss Hilda Carling, who bore him one son and remarried a onetime Chicago capitalist named Francis William Hinckley after Ochsner's death...
...long, with four houses on each side, an obscure Paris cranny favored by refugees and exiles because the rent is low. There, in 1920, the Barabas family from Hungary found refuge, while Papa Barabas tried to find work in his trade as a furrier. They were an ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into...
Scene: The Private Study of King Edward at Buckingham Palace: Tiny Lord Beaverbrook, the most powerful London publisher and a onetime Canadian insurance salesman, perches with his broad grin in the middle of an armchair. Over whiskeys & sodas from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near...
Best character sketch is that of Shorty Harris, grouchy, restless, simple-minded prospector who tramped Death Valley for 50 years, found five rich mines, got almost nothing for them. When he found The Bullfrog in 1904 a saloon keeper kept him drunk for three weeks, got him to sell his claim for $1,000 and three barrels of whiskey. When he found The Harrisburg soon after he became a partner in the company formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley...