Word: thaddeus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COLORFUL MEDICAL ALLUSION Then: "The Lord had sent plagues, he had sent more than lice, he had afflicted the country with Andrew Johnson." --Representative Thaddeus Stevens Now: Clinton's actions "will cause a cancer in our society." --Representative Jim Sensenbrenner...
...Letitia Davenant, wife of Thaddeus and mother of a 4 1/2-month-old daughter named Georgina. It was Letitia's inheritance that allowed her husband to refurbish his ancestral home, Quincunx House in Essex, to its former splendor. Before he married her, Thaddeus had been reduced to selling local markets the produce he grew on his property. So he is grateful to Letitia but harbors a pained secret that occurs to him again on the afternoon of her death: "It was his considerable loss, Thaddeus was every day aware, that he did not love his wife...
...this should have been so is but one of the mysteries that Trevor, with remarkable artistry and economy, introduces and then solves in Death in Summer. Letitia's death raises a practical problem: how to care for the infant daughter. Mrs. Iveson, Thaddeus' mother-in-law, suggests that he advertise for a nanny and agrees to help him interview the applicants. Four young women eventually arrive at Quincunx House, none of them found suitable for the post by Mrs. Iveson. She then volunteers to sublet her London apartment and take over Georgina's upbringing herself. Reluctantly, Thaddeus consents...
...Tutors need to have passed their oral exams", said Janice Thaddeus, head tutor of history and literature. "It makes them more confident in their knowledge and better prepared to teach...
Featured fellows included former Colorado governor Richard "Dick" Lamm and Thaddeus Garrett, Jr., special advisor to former president George H. Bush. Study group topics range from foreign policy to journalism to stock market analysis...