Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Worry continued at the White House over the health of Mrs. Coolidge's mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue. Mrs. Coolidge passed the week near the sickbed in Northampton, Mass. With her she had taken Blackberry, a fuzzy, black chow-dog. She gave Blackberry to Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor and friend of her son John...
...truly favorite son that he and his motorcade, preceded by militia and Boy Scouts, blared down the main street of Delaware, his home town. The entire populace had turned out, regardless of party. Other towns in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," had taught little Delaware how to act now that one of its own was recognizable as a candidate for the candidacy. Handsome, big-voiced Frank Willis was the man who placed President Harding in nomination...
...youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother, by the will of their father...
...there, he proceeded immediately to have an attack of influenza, during the course of which he stalked angrily about the town of London, frightening children with his dark and troubled eyes. Then, in May, he went to Gravelow and met the Huntings, Allegra and Penserosa, daughters, and Clara, their mother. These provided him with a momentary haven from the assaults of a world which he could not completely fathom, and which, by 1833 no longer admired his wise fancies & eccentric conceits as it had done before his belligerent sojourn in Greece. But his brief and comfortable enchantment was shattered...
...drawings are unusually good. "Mother Manhattan" is as well done and as effective as any of the similar things to be found in the pages of Lampy's more professional cousins. "Friendly Enemies" is a clever variation on the one-horse-town theme, although the caption is infinitely superior to the drawing itself. On the other hand "The Canonization of a Saint" contains better drawings that the caption deserves...