Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony, Giuseppe, Marco, Frank, Mabel, Jenny, Stella and Papa & Mama Menchetti wept at 22-year-old Natalino's accident-by-bombing on the road to glory...
Plans are already under way for the 1938 Sunshine Camp, a health school, which provides two months of happy, health-building camp life for sixty needy Cambridge children, an important piece of work, which is supported largely by the sale of Christmas seals. Sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Mabel Greeley Smith, Executive Secretary...
Sharpest dig at Walter Lippmann was made by Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose Manhattan salon Lippmann frequented as a young man: "Walter is never, never going to lose an eye in a fight. He might lose his glow, but he will never lose...
Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...
While waiting for Maurice to leave, Mabel made rapid progress in being "broken down and made over" by Tony, could soon sum up her past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon...