Word: morrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rocky, windswept shore briskly stepped a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert. When he arrived at a white, two-story, shingled house, surrounded by towering trees, thick shrubs, he turned in at its gate. North Haven townsfolk had told him this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give me a job?" As down-Easters will, Caretaker Grant answered...
...State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David Vivian Bath, the ousted onetime gardener, was well qualified to write, for only year before yesterday he married the entirely honeymoonish Mary Hay, dancer, onetime Mrs. Richard Barthelmess...
Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...
...Newsgatherer Bath would not have seen the new arrivals attend church services Sunday morning, for, though servants, town characters, village gossips crowded the little North Haven Chapel to overflowing, neither a Morrow nor Pilot Lindbergh worshipped in public that...
Newsgatherers who lurked in the steady rain about the guard-encircled grounds of the white-shingled house were not much more fortunate. They caught but fleeting glimpses of Anne Morrow and her pilot as they jounced hastily by in a yellow beach wagon, pleasure bound...