Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven't you heard of Matt Talbot...
...adult background is provided by Dorothy Peterson and Matt Moore, who are convincing as Penrod's mother and father. Zazu Pitts displays her agitated hands and middle-Western voice as the distracted mother of Georgie Bassett...
...communication with life, her false teeth. Brodie forbade his eldest daughter Mary to keep company with a decent young Irishman; when the first throes of child-birth showed she had disobeyed him he literally kicked her out of the house into a howling night of storm. His son Matt was a cowardly, priggish hypocrite; when Sir James Latta gave him a job in India Brodie said good riddance. Only his youngest daughter Nessie found favor in his eyes: that was because she was bright in school. Brodie drove her to study every spare minute, deviled her into a learning automaton...
...furnish-ing company from Edinburgh opened a branch shop next to Brodie's, undersold him, drove him gradually out of business. He welcomed his wife's death because it let him engage buxom young Barmaid Nancy as "housekeeper"; whiskey and Nancy became his crutches. Then Son Matt came whining home from India, hung around the house till one fine day he and Nancy went off to South America. Brodie leaned more heavily on the bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning the Latta. But somebody else won it. When Nessie got the news she hanged...
...Matt was a printer by trade, a preacher by nature, a puritan by training. While he read the Bible, went to prayer meeting, wrote tracts, shut his eyes to facts, the family printing shop drifted toward the rocks. It was saved only by the dogged efforts of his eldest son Dave. Little Carlotta, the youngest, saw her father's hand laid restrainingly on one after another of her brothers and sisters who wanted to break away to a life of their own. First it was Paget, whose girl was not only penniless but not good enough. Matt considered...