Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...triumphant that it dwarfed mere kings. The Rothschilds resolutely refused to abandon their religion, even as they became barons and lords as well as collectors of great Christian art. Thus it was a family catastrophe when Nathan's second daughter, Hannah, renounced Judaism to marry a Christian, the younger son of Lord Southampton. The family banished Hannah and considered her dead. The marriage seemed cursed. Hannah's young son died in a fall from a pony. Her husband was passed over by Lord Aberdeen for the post of Secretary at the Admiralty. And so on. In the Rothschilds, Ferguson finds...
...could she afford it?"--led him to think it was Starr's office that wanted to use the issue against her. And several weeks ago, an anonymous caller told Steele's sister that Steele should back Willey's story "if she knows what's good for her and her son." The family has received no word about the results of an FBI probe into the matter. Starr's spokesman has said he couldn't discuss the case. But Steele does know one thing: "I feel I have been strapped to the train track...
...mean to make fun. What can be more serious a matter than married life?" Strauss's domestic life is anything but dull. In the span of 24 hours the composer had to deal with an irate wife whom he also finds ravishingly beautiful, the howling of his infant son, and the pressure to compose...
Beside a dead maple, my neighbor from the next farm, Mark Shepard, cradles a Remington .280 rifle. I am a spectator today. So is Mark's son Glenn, 14. Glenn, a crack shot, has hunted turkey and pheasant with shotguns and deer with bow and arrow. But in New York State, he cannot legally go after deer with a gun until he is 16. That doesn't matter today. Glenn is excited but silent, testing the wind with a wet finger, flicking his eyes through the woods like any good hunter, alert to motion...
...there's something about hunting that nurtures my existence. There are many lessons about nature and life and death that can only be learned from hunting. Many plants and animals die daily to keep us fed, and hunting brings us into that process." Like many hunters, he teaches his son, 12, not to shoot anything he doesn't mean to eat. The hunting question always comes back to the Teddy Roosevelt paradox: Can we love animals and eat them? Can we love them and kill them...