Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jennings). Chief distinction of Whiteoaks is its 101-year-old heroine, played to the age limit by Ethel Barrymore. A wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...
...children have been brought up on TIME (not borrowed) and may our grandchildren and great grandchildren also be blessed with TIME weekly. In other words, many happy returns of your birthday...
Last autumn, before moving his 18 children, 13 grandchildren and divers in-laws from their drought-blighted farmstead in North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel...
White-haired but exuberant and bouncing Ella Reeve Bloor, 75. "Mother" of U. S. Communism returned last fortnight from three months in the Soviet Union. Now the No. i female member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, with a record of twelve grandchildren and 36 arrests. Mother Bloor last week gave her impressions of Communism in Russia...
...this troubled world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week had nothing on his mind except preparing 1) a message to Congress on the State of the Union, 2) another on the Budget and 3) a speech for his Party's Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives, he an- nounced that...