Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those who think evil things of me say I dislike my daughter-in-law Helene [Mother of King Michael]; that I am jealous of her; that I wanted the regency; that I even begrudged little Michael inheriting the legal right to the throne. These accusations are heartlessly false. I love Helene and her child with all my heart. They have been deserted by their husband and father.* Shall I forsake them in this solemn, trying hour when Michael is about to ascend the throne? No. A queen's heart has greater love than that...
...strong young adept at their life with ax, rod, gun, canoe. Their children are his playmates and he, after attending Princeton University, is not convinced that some dainty creature from Philadelphia or New York would make him as good a wife as Lena Wilson, the stocky daughter of his mother's north-woods cook...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
...mother's and Naomi's horror he has learned about drink from the hunkies. To his own horror, he learns about women from Naomi, who bears twins in her effort to hold her man. But he is enamored of Mary Conyngham, widowed sweetheart of his childhood. She installs him in the barn of Shane Castle (the Shane family, bygone royalty of "the Town," being lugged in to connect this book with its predecessors as another "panel" in the Bromfield series). Mary Conyngham is out to rescue Philip from his mother, whose pious meddling caused everyone...
Emma Downes the mother, the "good woman," passing at last from her tribulations, marries a Congressman and goes to her grave trailing ironic clouds of Y.M.C.A. glory. The book is named for her and dedicated? to all of her ilk in U. S., "which has more than its share of them.'' It is she that is most to blame for the book's failure. Mr. Bromfield has undoubtedly met the type but he has never, apparently, been sufficiently interested in an Emma Downes to draw of her more than an obvious, uninspired caricature...