Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bride. In a Washington Square Mansion live two wealthy, unwobbling bachelors. A sentimental maiden aunt tried to make them wobble, but they remained, unwobblingly, bachelors...
Diana, however, is still willing to marry Ango, if he will send Blacky to live with her aunt in Canada; but he must choose between the two. After much deliberation he refuses to part with his daughter and resolves 'to do the thing he cannot explain, because he knows it's right...
Katherine Emmet did not suggest very clearly the granite substratum of the mother's character. Louise Huff, recently redeemed from the cinema, played the fiancee. She called her aunt "Ontie," furnished moments of genuine beauty, but appeared somewhat amateurish in her emotional passages. Alan Birmingham, Gilbert Emery and Arthur Shaw labored to inject life into their parts...
...United States Patent Office, or rather she is several ladies whose name is thus registered. Prudence is one of the ways in which Mr. Hearst collects pennies by the million. In the words of one of Mr. Hearst's full page blurbs : " 'Mother Prudence,' 'Aunt Prudence,' 'Sister Prudence' they call her. She is all that and more." She is a walking dictionary, a "Confidanté of thousands," an expert in all the household arts, past master in how to keep husbands, children and a figure. In short she is an institution through which...
Died. Signora Galli, 90, aunt of Pope Pius XI, at Milan...