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The central character of The Door of Life is a middle-aged woman of the upper middle class, who is referred to throughout as "the squire." This in itself is likely to be a little confusing to U. S. readers, who usually think of English squires as ruddy, irascible old...
Down the centuries the name Morrice became Moris, Morres, Morys, then changed to Morris before the present Lord Numeld was born in Cowley. His identified ancestors include mayors, aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself...
Let Subscriber Squires improve his knowledge: 1) the rape of old words to fill new needs is in the best tradition of the fine, illogical English language; 2) euiconogenic is not a word, it is a Greek robot.-ED.
ALDEN W. SQUIRES, M.D. Newton Highlands, Mass.
The Sawdust Trail. Only one other prominent New Deal politician has a record that in one respect can compare with that of Governor Earle: he and Franklin Roosevelt were born with silver spoons in their mouths and brought up in the stodgiest of rich, conservative societies, Roosevelt among the squires...