Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
...scurrilous story had it that the love affair began last summer. The strong-willed "mother-in-law of the Balkans," Queen Marie, discovered it and Ileana's "cherub," one Paius, was sent posthaste back to his ship in the Black...
...return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother-aunt added: "Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg." And Hamlet, distraught and upset, stayed away from college...
...Goldstein had a warrant for Dr. Miller's arrest, on behalf of Mrs. Miller. The surgeon was suing her for divorce, charging her with cruelty, impairing his health, refusing to associate with his mother and sisters, and ridiculing his father's favorite game (golf). Mrs. Miller wanted alimony. Of the details Mr. Goldstein cared not. He had his warrant to serve...
...first best seller Sorrel and Son, his second best seller Doomsday, is, in this opus, not so much complicated by the more difficult factors of good storytelling and sound characterization. In the story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve to excuse his habit of seizing his wife and making to her "a passionate, dear murmuring...