Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these two Italians, Nicola Sacco, had worked in a shoe factory and cultivated a garden in Stoughton, Mass., before he was sent to jail for murder, seven years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...particular, as the King's oldest son, the conception has a special importance, which, in whatever part of the empire I may be, I always try to keep in my mind. The Crown stands above all distinctions of country, race and party, and serves to mark the unity in which all such differences are transcended...
...Recently Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania took her son, King Michael, to communion. When the priest was about to offer the consecrated wine to the boy king as he knelt before the altar, Michael said simply: "I don't drink wine in the morning." The priest assured the royal youngster that holy wine was not the same as other wine and that he must take at least a sip if he wanted to be a good boy and receive the blessing. After looking over at his mother, who wore an expression of mingled pain and amusement, Michael finally...
...generosity and politeness, guarded by a sense of humor, have not been assassinated by anger or malice. No bit of raucous mimicry by Sinclair Lewis surpasses Dillwyn Parrish's subtly corrosive pictures of fleshy Fred Rain painting his bathroom while trying not to marry; fouling his straight young son's mind with a circumlocution on sex in flowers; preparing stuffy sermons in his smug study. Not "Old Jud" himself, the muscular college revivalist of Elmer Gantry, is more offensive than Fay Johnson, the Y.M.C.A. hearty of this book...
...Story, told episodically, is perhaps more woeful than necessary. John Rain, the son, after a gassing in France, goes away with the married daughter of his father's one scarlet woman, Tannis. On their westbound train it is revealed that John will probably die soon of tuberculosis. Rain Sr., discovers the flatulence of his faith, but, lacking courage to start afresh, keeps his job and remains, like his congregation, sheepish and grey of soul...