Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she never can have one. Sister No. 2 deduces therefrom that she is in the same predicament, adopts a baby only to learn that she is going to have one, has twins. Sister No. 3 is beyond all reasonable doubt going to have a baby, but its father (John Garfield) committed suicide in Four Daughters. Without waiting for the baby to arrive, she curdles the thickening plot by marrying her unborn posthumous baby's father's rival (Jeffrey Lynn...
...GRAPES OF WRATH-John Steinbeck-Viking...
MOMENT IN PEKING-Lin Yutang-John...
...elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided "magazine men," and there is no record of his having high regard for any writers except the dead. Unlike the Rockefellers, the Morgans nave not gone in for personal pressagentry; neither have they unbosomed themselves to historians. Consequently, the chief books on the elder Morgan, able in other respects, are either obscure or theatrical on the interesting question of how Morgan felt about being Morgan...
...When little Pierpont came into the world [in 1837] there were a great many business troubles," writes Mr. Satterlee gravely. Not greatly troubled was the well-to-do Morgan family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school...