Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show places of the U. S., Yaddo is a 500-acre estate with pine groves, vast lawns, artificial lakes with ducks, famous rose gardens, white marble fountains. The name Yaddo was a baby pronunciation given by the Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate...
...turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine's childhood and adolescence...
...plan, still the rule for most youngsters, is considered old-fashioned by many educators. The up-to-date child rides through his public schooling on a 6-3-3-2 or 6-4-4 model. In the 6-4-4 system (notable example: Pasadena Calif.) the pupil spends his childhood in a six-year elementary school, feels his adolescent oats in a four-year junior high, grows to manhood in a four-year senior high which takes in the junior and senior years of the old high school, the freshman and sophomore years of college. He gets a general education...
Married. John George ("Johnny") Goodman. 28, U. S. amateur golf champion, onetime (1933) U. S. Open champion; and Josephine Kersigo, 27, his sweetheart from childhood who devoutly makes novenae before his major contests (TIME. June 6); in Omaha...
Lord Jeff (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Freddie Bartholomew, who was temporarily out of the courts last week, has his difficulties in real life, but they are not to be compared with the miseries of his childhood in the cinema. He experienced beatings and neglect in David Copperfield, seasickness in Captains Courageous, a black eye in Little Lord Fauntleroy and kidnapping in Kidnapped. To this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment...