Word: rossetti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius you think shows promise of being greater than your own." Ford Madox Hueffer, the old artist's grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more or less legal possession of four wives. Following his grandfather's quixotic instructions, he was feckless about money and generous beyond his means. His life...
...clutched the side of his mouth in pain-his teeth were full of cavities." Violent headaches were common, until teachers realized that many students were too poor to buy needed eyeglasses. Even with glasses, they took a dim view of standard English courses rich in Henry James and Christina Rossetti, whose polished phrases merely provoked bored back-row obscenities...