Word: tench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored cartoons of Washington and Rochambeau, titled SHINE VALIANT CHIEFS, and took the third story to spell out: FOR OUR ALLIES, HUZZA! HUZZA...
Sayward is one of those magnetic women who holds her family in an unbreakable hoop of love. She forgives Portius' drinking and wenching because she is awed by his education and believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster...