Word: swinburne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing Offer. In Chicago, Orthopedic Appliances Salesman W. H. Swinburn reported the theft of two artificial legs from his automobile, offered, if the thief really needed the legs, to fit them free of charge...
...substitute for religion and boy friends, she turned to Swinburn's poetry. Youngest son Frank, although his father's pet, was addicted to melancholy, once burst out: "Nobody loves me in my own house." There was friction between her parents, though it was oblique or hidden. A characteristic tiff came about when Mrs. Thomas, inspired by Tolstoi's My Religion, began giving handouts to any and all beggars. Said Dr. Thomas at last: "I admire Tolstoi in many ways, but he has no common sense, and he lives in the country...