Word: priscilla
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...bill. This week Kuroki's class will graduate, but Ben will get his degree by mail. He left school about three weeks ago; with borrowed money, he had bought the York (Neb.) Republican (circ. 2,000) from venerable (73) Publisher Joseph Alden, a descendant of John & Priscilla...
...voyage to a more pious point of view than is held by the usual man of the sea. Gebler tells of this conversion with admirable lack of bathos, at the same time conveying the force of the event. The conversion, incidentally, is achieved by the presence of Priscilla Mullins, she of "speak for yourself, John" fame, who appears one night in the captain's cabin and displays a touching naivete that softens the old rotter's heart...
John Alden, he who finally spoke for himself, is the central character of the novel, if indeed anyone deserves that title. The narration of his wooing of Priscilla is kept free from sexual or romantic overplaying, fortunately...
Candidates for the Class of '51 are: Helen Barbara Bernstein, Sheila Alice Brown, Baila Judith Coren, Barbara Anne Higgins, and Alico Dianne Wertz; for the Class of '52: Judith Grose, Allison Ann Mathews, and Priscilla Smith; for the Class of '53: Elizabeth Ann Brown, Janet Kathryn McNeill, and Renee S. Michelson...
...second of a family of six sons-and a daughter, Forrest Percival Sherman was born to the headmaster of a small school in Reeds Ferry, N.H. (pop. 265) and to a mother whose forebears were John and Priscilla Alden. Shermans had fought with the colonists against the Dutch, gone with Benedict Arnold to Quebec...