Word: thees
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...family fortune. When Roosevelt was a toddler, his asthma began to overshadow everything he did. As he grew, Theodore was too "delicate" for school--until Harvard he was educated at home--and too weak to stand up to other boys. On doctor's orders his father Theodore Sr.--called Thee by everyone in the family--and his mother Martha, called Mittie, rushed him to seashore resorts one day and mountain cabins the next in search of air to help him breathe. The sickly boy seemed unlikely to survive into manhood or amount to much...
...Roosevelt's childhood weakness would turn out to be the provocation for the ferociously robust man he became. At about the time Theodore reached the end of boyhood, Thee, whom young T.R. adored, set off a crisis in their relationship. He insisted on making his favorite child into a strong man by directing him to embrace a life of vigorous exercise. He told him with characteristic sternness to throw off his invalidism by force of will. He ordered the boy to "make your own body." According to Theodore's sister, Theodore "resolved to make himself strong," to turn his back...
Delighted to see that his son loved nature, Thee took him camping and encouraged his interest in biology and dissection. Mittie was not so enthusiastic. Dead-animal stink and the reeking chemicals used to preserve hides upset the decorum of her parlor. But nature and the science of nature were the solace of Roosevelt's invalid childhood, a refuge where he could achieve intellectual mastery at a young age. Under his father's loving tutelage, T.R. fashioned himself into a naturalist whose specimens can be viewed in museums today; scientists later welcomed him as an equal into their debates about...
...shall teach thee what the Crushing Fire is? It is God's kindled fire, Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned; It shall verily rise over them like a vault, On outstretched columns...
...However dismissive Kaufman the writer was to the political process, Kaufman the director knew how to put on a splendid show. Of Thee In Sing, then and now, begins with convention delegates bearing such placards as "Wintergreen - the Flavor Lasts," "Vote for Posterity and See What You Get" and the meta-cynical "Turn the Reformers Out." The first act climax, set in Madison Square Garden, intersperses the political rhetoric with a wrestling match; the combatants briefly pause in a double-scissors lock to applaud one of the speeches, which is interrupted by the announcement of a hockey or baseball score...