Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What to do with too much calls for as great courage and acumen as what to do with Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Mr. Mazur draws a comparison: "Europe's problem is that of the man whose farm and workshop have been destroyed and whose family demands the prime necessities, food, shelter, and clothing; whereas America's problem is that of the potentate who must not only maintain but even increase the magnificence of his palace and whose family demands all the furbelows and gewgaws that had once been luxuries but have now become necessities...
...some extent, their anticipations were rewarded. There was Geoffrey Wareham and Janet Rodney, his fiancee, an absurd and temperamental pair, a burden though a source of merriment to the girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass...
...times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell, married, grown old, the mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen's Croquet Ground...
...Loveday-such was not her "lay." As she explained to a friend (not her mother, who would never have understood), "I'm not a humbug; . . . I say all open and sunny: What I really want is for you to give me a good time. ... In return I'll keep company with you!-literally. . . . They can judge, then, if my company's worth it. What's to prevent them running? . . . It's the same high seas and black flag...
...Loveday buccaneered through garish London night life, dipped her black flag to Charles-"formal, formidable, fastidious," to which descriptive f's Loveday later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal." Bankrupt, Pirate Loveday shipped for foreign parts as partner to a professional dancer. In Budapest he attempted his own interpretation of "keeping company," but Loveday "whooshed"' off to London, on the "wadge" of kronen which a Hungarian tart pulled generously out of her stocking...