Sterling North
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Thomas Sterling North was an American writer. He is best known for the children's book Rascal, a bestseller in 1963.
Sterling North
Sterling North House, Edgerton, WI
Martinet
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The martinet is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages, described below.
Sterling North
…of several of his books. North had three siblings: two sisters, Jessica Nelson North who was an author, poet, and editor; Theo (Theodora), who was the martinet in the family; and a brother, Herschel, who survived World War I. When Sterling North was 11 (in 1917, which would have been the year of his maternal…
A simple, small martinet