Word: tearless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house also needed him. The life that had been compounded of good things for little girls while he was alive crashed to its tearless ruin with his death. Louise, who was twelve when he died, could remember the diamonds in the eyes of his bulldog stickpin, and how she hid her dolls under the covers and made Father sit on a chair, so he would not sit on the dolls when he came to say goodnight. He took everything to the grave with him-money (he had signed too many notes), friends, family standing, a way of life...