Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
...must to all men, Death came, last week, to Samuel S. Childs, 61, founder and President of the Childs Restaurant Co. Mr. Childs, suffering from a tumor of the small intestine, had been taken from his home in Bernardsville, N. J., to Manhattan where, after an operation, he died...
...Samuel S. Childs, with ten other Childs children, was born on a meagre New Jersey farm near Bernardsville, where all his relatives now live in handsome houses on a shiny street called Childs Avenue. He, as a boy, desired to, wear the uniform of his country, and with this end in view entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, changed his mind, became a civil engineer, left engineering, entered the service of one Alfred W. Dennett, restaurant proprietor...
...located in downtown Manhattan-a neat, clean little establishment. Samuel and his brother William (now President of the Childs Co.) believed that they could make money on a small place, flagrantly scrubbed, which sold good food cheaply. They put the name of Childs in white letters on the window. They knew that the sort of U. S. men who would eat there enjoyed having their food set before them by young females with clean fingernails. Therefore they procured waitresses, dressed them in white...
...Died. Samuel S. Childs, 61, famed restaurant man, in Manhattan, after an operation (see BUSINESS...