Word: brood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role was that of Sister Mary (Si May-e), a noble, impetuous Negress whose first husband leaves her for his side woman within a year of their marriage. After that she becomes notoriously promiscuous, tenderly raises a brood of illegitimate children. After 20 years her husband, whom she has never ceased to love, returns. Sister Mary scorns him. Then her firstborn, Unex (so named because he was unexpectedly born in the middle of a road), dies and in a loud wail, as the curtain falls, Sister Mary finally makes known her contrition. Ethel Barrymore Colt, as one of Sister Mary...
...report that Vincenzo Marchietelli, chef of Congressman Sol Bloom of New York, had chased Col. Marco Pennaroli, military attache of the Italian Embassy with a knife after an argument over Fascism, caused Chef Marchietelli to brood. When he brooded he became insane. When he became insane he was committed to the Gallinger Hospital, Washington...
...Long Island, in Maryland, and the West. 47 sleek racehorses took their morning gallops as usual last week. On a big farm near Lexington, Ky. 100 brood mares and eight famed stallions passed days of pleasure and tranquillity. At Brookdale. N. J. 30 yearlings tried their long thin legs against the time when they would be raced as two-year-olds. All were horses belonging to the stable of Harry Payne Whitney, and the men who took care of them were wondering what their fate was to be. For their master was dead (TIME, Nov. 3) and it seemed possible...
What has neverbeen heard before was the "breezy" backtalk which the Mother Country gave her grown-up brood of Dominions last week, as though she were beginning at last to think of herself as only a country too. Back-talker: the Secretary of State for the Dominions, the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas. At an Imperial Conference luncheon he said breezily...
...Robinson was released from custody when he promised no more to threaten death to Professor Ernest Laurer of Northwestern University. Declared Robinson: "My daughter, Roslyn, attended Professor Laurer's class in history five years ago. He taught her the theory of evolution. . . . She began to brood over it and that led to a nervous breakdown and death. I blame him for her death...