Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mother-in-law War-mother...
...Foster-mother-in-law Step-War-mother. Stepmother...
...That Alfred Emanuel Smith rose from utter poverty and the shelter of a saloon is another current myth. His father, for whom he was named, was a New York trucker of whom little is known except that he worked hard and died young, when his son was 13. The mother, whose maiden name was Mulvehill and who also was born in New York, had seen to it that the boy went to a parochial school. At the father's death, he left school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years his junior...
...Scene. In his last harangue to the jury, Lawyer Littleton quoted Shakespeare on the subject of "a good name" until he even made Oilman Sinclair snuffle and dab his eyes. Sinclair grasped Lawyer Littleton's plump hand when he sat down. Sinclair's wife and mother sobbed softly. When the jury returned from its deliberations, Sinclair stood up. Littleton remained seated. The Sinclair ladies had withdrawn to a corridor...
...deceive him. The husband prisons his wife and banishes her paramour, so that his son's name may never be smirched by her evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course; for so doing, her mother-in-law kills her. The thoughtful content of this problem melodrama is not, obviously...