Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copy of TIME, frame it, and hang it in his front bay-window. Then he will go to all the newsdealers in the country and buy 8 gross of TIME and scatter them broadside among his friends and relations. He will even give one to each of his mother-in-laws. Ah! How great he will be. All the people who are so fortunate as to know him will look up to him as an author or a devil or something...
...sheer physical tax is tremendous-long formal receptions; bi-weekly informal receptions (instituted by Mrs. Coolidge); luncheons with the Ladies of the Senate (a carry-over from Second Lady days); posing for photographs; laying cornerstones, visiting hospitals, remembering to send flowers, answering mail. Mrs. Coolidge's mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule in June, Mrs. Coolidge was in a run-down state for which three months of fresh air and rest were a not superfluous dose of tonic...
...with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. after John and his father had decided that railroading would be a good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion, had orders to guard against and censor all importune press photographs...
Unlike many poloists, Hitchcock cares little for horses, little for hunting. He rides his ponies hard and not gracefully. But he was bred out of a family of polo-lovers. His mother, herself a player, has been friend and mentor of the Meadow Larks, a team which included young Tommy and Stevenson and many another youngster who now has an international rating. It was she who in 1921 polished the play of the 16-year-old Guest, then a raw but distinguished immigrant to the U. S. from England. Polo is in the Hitchcock blood. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. ranks with...
...genetically termed "the Wheater Children." To sort them out, Martin Boyne, bachelor, 46, by chance their fellow traveler, required many whispered conferences with Nurse Scopy of the iron hand and grey cotton glove. This worthy soul scoffed at his belief that Judith Wheater was the baby's mother-no indeed, Judy was a child herself, for all her motherly ways. Baby Chipstone was her own brother, and her parents' chief bone of contention. Then there were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous...