Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the first 15 years of her married life, Mrs. Hoover, herself an able geologist, accompanied her husband to China, to Mandalay, to St. Petersburg, to the Alps, except when the exigencies of motherhood (two sons) prevented. Hoover offices girdled the globe, above and below the equator. Hoover homes followed them, but, according to Biographer Irwin, 1907 was the only year prior to 1914 in which the Hoovers did not spend some time at their California base...
House, in quiet Kensington (London), where they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
...given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid to let her divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play. It tries to reproduce the effect that such a murder might really have upon a small group of assorted polite persons. The play opens with a fifteen minute soliloquy from Harvey Bell Smith...
Mother Machree. William Fox has rediscovered that "Mother" is the sweetest word at the box office. A month ago he released Four Sons, maternal, Bavarian. This week, he released Mother Machree, an Irish valentine. It tells of Ellen (Belle Bennett), who hears in her little Ballymore cottage that her husband has been killed in a sea tornado. With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also...
...think it's mean of them!' [exclaimed Mrs. Johnson rushing indoors to her husband...