Word: filial
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...Carrie more suffering than he knew. This week in another purely biographical volume that is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father his innings. If The Exile is a labor of love, Fighting Angel is a labor of filial justice. It gives less evidence of Pearl Buck's understanding of her father than of her stubborn attempt to understand...
...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
Federal law prohibits the exchange of person-to-person radio messages in the course of a public broadcast. A Pittsburgh newshawk confronted Baritone Thomas with this solid legal fact when he sang there last week, asked him what he would do if his filial salutation should be banned from the air by the Federal Communications Commission. John Charles Thomas' reply was unhesitating : "It will be either 'Good Night, Mother,' or 'Goodbye Broadcasting...
...Miramar, Lawrence is Marius, Coward is Andrew Jordan. Marius has two sons, one of whom despises his father and can think of nothing but his future career as a great trapeze artist; the other, Saul, has left home several years ago but is coming back to do his last filial duties. On the boat from Marseilles Saul meets Andrew Jordan, a "brilliantly second-rate," phenomenally successful playwright. In their very first conversation Andrew's shiny sophistication crumples before the hypnotic sincerity of Saul; by the time they reach Miramar Andrew is in a dither to do something first-rate...
...looked as if Ben was to go partnerless. The only woman in his life, besides his beloved sister, was Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, wife of his close friend and almost like a mother to him. But when Lewis died Ben discovered a more than filial affection for Mary Anne, and it took him less than the traditional widow's year to overcome her scruples. Author Thane leaves him on the threshold of his career and on her doorstep, with the Premiership in the future and Mary Anne's answer just inside the door...