Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estate. On their golden wedding anniversary-to which President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Emperor Wilhelm and many another sent presents- Mr. Busch gave Mrs. Busch a diamond-and-pearl studded crown of gold valued $200,000. August A. Busch, their son, protested last week that the gems seized from his mother & sisters must be parts of a "rope of diamonds" which his father gave his mother and which she had had broken up into bracelets in Germany this year...
...Harry F. Marks, Manhattan bookdealer, who, last week, to the astonishment of antiquarians, who are forever losing track of the things they admire the most, announced that he had sold Lord Byron's desk. The purchaser withheld his name because he wanted to give it to his mother, for a surprise, on Christmas. Lord Byron's razors were still in their proper compartment...
...bronze (a splayfooted gawky peasant girl wiping her enormous hands on the flanks of a wretched skinny child), babbits were terrified. They said, one to another: "Well, I must say, I think it's blasphemous. Jesus looks positively Semitic! And when you remember the way Raphael painted the mother, it seems really shameful . . . the man must be an atheist!" Esthetes, on the other hand, became jubilant. "What strength," they murmured, "what superb nuance...
Emily's mother had never been able to forget the horror of poverty that had been her childhood. Even in Stephen Fletcher's life, spending money had been impossible for her. "She would dream of an immediate trip to Washington to buy fine things, such as new cloth for upholstering the furniture; then, by a natural impulse, she would touch the plush of the chair on which she sat and say to herself, 'But this is still very good.' " Her mother's arrival filled her with dread. "There was no true bond of affection between...
Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing...