Sentences with phrase «grandfather was out of work»
During the depression my grandfather was out of work and rescued a discarded upright piano.
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That year, Gilbert Watson Palmer (Alston's grandfather) set out on his own after working for many years with the Fruit Dispatch Service, which was a division of United Fruit Co. and a forerunner of Chiquita Banana.
In your grandfather's day, unless hunting in Alaska or out of work for some time, a man was sporting a fresh, clean face.
His father and grandfather had both been thrown out of work in the shipyards during his early childhood, in the difficult days of the 1930s, but after Ellison Street elementary school and service in the Royal Engineers during the second world war, Don followed them into the Tyneside yards.
I can't tell you how many guy profiles looked the same: a few selfies (some with shirts off), lots of talk about working out, their grandfather was the person they most admired, and the most recent book they'd read was Rich Dad, Poor Dad or The Purpose - Driven Life.
For Frederick's grandfather, in case you haven't already worked that bit out, is Dr Victor Frankenstein, the crackpot scientist best known for taking bits of dead people and using them to build his very own monster.
Consider that Summer has had malaria; her little brother, Jaz, is friendless; her parents have to fly to Japan to take care of elderly relatives; and her grandmother (Obaa - chan) and grandfather (Jii - chan) must pay the mortgage by coming out of retirement to work for a custom harvesting company.
Apparently whoever greeted my great - grandfather at Ellis Island was in too much of a hurry to ask the spelling of my last name, so from that point on Jon Wigg has been Jon Wick — which has worked out fine for me.
Not only is it beautiful, but my Grandfather got it out of an old home in Staunton and I've heard that he did some restoration work to it... though I don't know all the details about that.