Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angel in the Pacific Sirs: My congratulations ... on the admirable review of Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother (TIME, May 10). To those of us who share the belief that Thomas Wolfe's untimely death was the greatest loss to American literature in modern times, it is indeed gratifying...
...Bush (née Spore) was born near Bay City, Mich. She is a sister of the late U.S. Navy Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam. In her time she has practiced dentistry, and as a lavish Manhattan charitarian she became known as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...tell her about fighting the battle of China or India and she'll say, 'Yes, yes, angel, but have you heard of our new union - the Amalgamated Order of War-Working Sweater Girls...
...father of the late novelist Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) was a stonecutter of great rhetorical influence on his son. Echoes of his surging speech resound through Wolfe's novels. But the novelist's mother, a sinewy woman still living at the age of 83 in Asheville, N.C., was probably an even greater influence. She is a positive personality. "You told me," her son once wrote to Julia Elizabeth Wolfe, "that three great Americans had their birthday in February, and when I looked puzzled you said that you were the third." Readers...
...psychological tide turned. For Mrs. Wolfe that year meant the decline of real-estate values; for her son, publication of Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe's thinly disguised Asheville portraits set the whole town buzzing with curiosity and indignation. Mrs. Wolfe sat up reading the book until 3 a.m. "Sometimes I'd laugh," she said, "but again I'd cry. It was ridiculous in some ways, but I didn't look upon it as being anything serious." Her daughter Mabel thought otherwise. "I understand," she said, "that Tom has written up the family and the people...