Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albers Bros., millers of cereals, flours, mixed feeds, importers and exporters of grain, sell their products under many brands ("Albers," "Peacock," "Del Monte," "Sunripe") and one of the chief brands is "Carnation Wheat Flakes." A rising generation, beneficiary of combination, may thus have childhood memories of Carnation milk upon Carnation cereal...
...Story. Wolf Brassen said farewell to the paradise of childhood at 14, in 1909, in the southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here...
...emerged from art school in 1921. Before the year was out, Queen Mary had visited a London gallery to gaze upon the first oil portrait her eldest son had sat for since childhood. King George called Painter Chandor to him to say it was an excellent likeness. The Prince was so pleased he had Painter Chandor do him again, with arms folded, reflective, in his study at St. James's Palace. Also in 1921, his first year out of art school, Painter Chandor had his portrait of Sir Edward Marshall Hall "on the line" at the Royal Academy...
Diphtheria is an acute communicable disease of childhood. Bacilli breed in the throat, cause grey patches to form there, sometimes produce growth of false membranes which block the breathing...
...that she may marry his father. Could Bobbie Blaydes? Bobbie, Jefferson senior's old friend, is a social man, a person who plays around with many people for amusement; he knows nothing about steel, cares less. Could Jenny Carlton? Jenny, characterized as "a good egg," is Donald's cunning childhood chum, now his secretary. Could Arthur Willis? Willis, Jefferson senior's subordinate, got Miss Eames her job in the old man's office. Anyone of them could have stolen the formula. Author Blaker gives good account of himself in revealing his secret...