Word: schuylers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. "Twenty-two sat down to dinner on a Thanksgiving afternoon at four, 1903, in the House on Sycamore Street." These were the sons and daughters, the grandsons and granddaughters of Mathilda Schuyler and the Old Gentleman, her husband. It was this coarse, fibrous old man who, at the end of dinner, told the family which he had planted so securely in fertile Ohio: "Your mother, children, God bless her, is going to have a baby...
This baby was David Schuyler. He grew up with his nephews and nieces who were older than himself. In a sense, he was like them, carrying on in his small person many of those clan qualities that made the Schuylers a tough and strenuous unit. But he had added to his mother's wiry energy and to his father's clumsy power a delicacy of mind that had never been developed in either of them. Early in his life he began to read books not for amusement, although they excited him beyond all games or merriments, but because...
...writes about, to give to the man's career, after her history of his boyhood has been concluded, the semblance of truth, to make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps 25 years after this. To supply a background of later events that are not included in her story of David Schuyler's boyhood, Author Hurst...
Other heroes, more or less heroic, and their ghosts (as given by Mr. Schuyler) are, or were...
Celebrities who Mr. Schuyler says write their own stories are Robert T. Jones, Mary K. Browne, Helen Wills. Miss Wills also illustrates her stories, though artists have remarked that her drawings might sometimes profit by ghostly...