Word: brooding
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...being afraid of the dark. The child's torture is made credible by the sly malice with which his unnatural mother administers it. One night Foil de Carotte does not pray his usual prayer that "Mme Lepic will forget about him for a little while." He begins to brood on suicide. Even next morning, when his father has him come to a party celebrating his election as village mayor, the desolate child finds himself suddenly abandoned, ridiculed for his cast-off clothing on what promised to be a day of days. In a barn he finds a rope...
...going to marry, Jen showed her how to get him over it. Her secret diplomacy got Lois May her chance to get away from the life she hated. When Olly felt misunderstood, Jen made him understand that he was not. When the Janowskis settled their squalling Polish brood on a neighboring farm, it was Jen's tolerance that kept the Shaw mind open until Stan Janowski proved his worth as a farmer. In spite of Jen's impregnable excellence Authoress Carroll makes her such an attractive character that finally even skeptical readers will agree with the Yankee Shaw...
...said that the Whitneys as a family, and the Jock Whitneys as individuals, are the chief props & mainstays of fine horses and horse racing in the U. S., can be gathered from the following list of places where Whitney flat-racers, steeplechasers, brood mares, stallions, polo ponies et al. were last week training, breeding, resting, munching oats...
...Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive plans to commit suicide with an unpublished novelist, Daughter Elizabeth (Ruth Gordon) turns practical, gets a job at Macy...
...best cliente) works Mario into her toils, and meekly proposes that he marry her after divorcing his wife. Aline, aware of all, saves Mario, their home, and the situation by a ruse, so that the couple is enabled at the end to live happily ever after amidst a brood of children and fake scenery...