Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead's friends to see how an angry she-bear looks at 10 paces. Senator Shipstead's friends wondered how Senator Shipstead looked at the other end of those 10 paces...
...those of his parents centred upon his future cannot be understood except by those who have experienced it. When that loss comes the sun is darkened, and from brightness the future turns to gloom. The map of life is changed in the twinkling of an eye. To a mother it seems hardly worth the living...
...delight he had discovered in going to kindergarten; it could never be so merry and beautiful again. Finally, miserable, full of an unexplainable despair, small Murray Folkoy jumped out of the window. In the hospital, where doctors said he might recover from a broken leg and other injuries, his mother sat by his bed, his friends sent up messages, even the principal came to see how he was getting along...
...three-year-old girl told her mother, Mrs. Raymond Gunn, about this awful secret and advised her to be careful. Mrs. Gunn, who often had to go five times to her daughter's room to say goodnight, who had often had to quiet a mighty fear by leaving a crack in the door to the lighted hall, listened carefully. Then she said: "You come with me. I'm going to teach you a lesson." She put her small daughter in a closet, closed the door, locked it, listened to her daughter's screams and walked away...
...Merry Malones. What Schlitz beer did for Milwaukee, George M. Cohan has done for the American flag. He has done much the same thing for Irish households, soft-shoe dancing and mother. All these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly...