Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest donor was Nominee Smith's friend since childhood, William F. Kenny, multi-millionaire contractor of Brooklyn, N. Y., owner of the private car St. Nicholas on which the Nominee has toured the country. His donations totaled...
...Since childhood David Bowes-Lyon has enjoyed the occult reputation of possessing second sight. This was most strikingly demonstrated when he absolutely refused to believe official War Office statements that his brother Michael had been killed in France...
...feel the impulse strong upon me to write once more to the publication which I "adopted" in its infancy, or at least in its young childhood (1923). (See TIME, Jan. n, 1926, LETTERS...
Maurice Bokanowski was born in Havre, but spent his childhood in Toulon, French naval base, where his father made a fortune in department stores. Admitted to the bar when comparatively young he soon became one of the most brilliant, popular and highly feed lawyers in Paris. Originally of radical sympathies he became more and more conservative. His career in many respects was not unlike that of ex-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Grateful Parisians will remember him as the man who modernized their sadly inefficient telephone system...
...marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts a commonplace marriage with the silent man who had loved her all along. Adventures with football star, hearty marine and grey-haired oldster fell drably short of the tales of knights and ladies, her childhood favorites. But, after all, the lady, though golden-haired, was a stenographer. Author Weaver* still writes New Yorkese correctly, effectively. But he pieces it out with stilted paragraphs of unlikely philosophy and extraneous sophisticated opinion...