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...Victorian household. His father was a real estate agent and surveyor, an ironic individual who reminded his son of a character by Dickens. One of the elder Chesterton's idiosyncrasies was to pretend that he knew a great deal about flowers, gravely lecturing to lady visitors about a "sprig of wild bigamy." When he identified a flower as "Bishop's Bigamy," even his innocent listeners grew suspicious. "Perfectly happy at the bottom of the class," Gilbert Chesterton dreamed through his pleasant schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys...
...nther von Kluge. As a climax a tiny Rhineland girl toddled up to von Kluge, gave the general his own big bouquet of red car nations. After this solemn moment all was jollification and singing of "Now we have soldiers again!" in the streets of Old Cologne. One young sprig went about bellowing: "Turn all our fine new buildings into barracks...
...Sprig of a patrician Boston family whose wealth came from shipping and New England real estate, Eleonora Sears is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jef ferson. Her mother's father was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1892-93) Minister to France. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1875, is currently celebrated in Boston for his habit of taking a long constitutional around Back Bay every day, rain or shine. Frederick Richard Sears's daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs...
...ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required to faint, are lowered easily to the floor by ubiquitous property men. First nighters found all this to their liking, thought dainty, wide-eyed Helen Chandler looked lovely as a sprig of almond blossoms, considered her real-life husband Ac tor Fletcher adequately droll, rated Lady Precious Stream as unimportantly amusing as a visit to a nursery...
...which Arthur Compton was born 43 years ago in Wooster, Ohio, is something for students of heredity and environment to cluck over. The father is Elias Compton, Ph.D., D.D., Presbyterian clergyman, longtime professor of philosophy and psychology at the College of Wooster. The mother is Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, sprig of a German Mennonite family, who three years ago got an LL.D. for being "wife and mother of the Comptons." The parents did not try to choose careers for their four children but encouraged their natural bents. ''We used the Bible," said Father Elias, "and common sense...