Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges against Mr. Daugherty will be dropped. He was so moved that he made a speech thanking everybody, broke down and wept. He, 67, blind in one eye, prepared to leave for Washington Court House, Ohio, to visit his 90-year-old mother and "make a living at law practice...
...drama reaches its peak in a courtroom scene. The brilliant young district attorney is prosecuting a woman, scorned by society, known only by the mysterious name, Madame X. He is on the point of vanquishing her when he discovers she is his own mother. The climax is heavily emotional. Since first seen 18 years ago, it has never failed to draw tears. With this play, Miss Frederick came before her English audience. When the curtain was rung down, women were seen weeping-almost hysterically. Pauline Frederick has a low, beautiful voice, dark, tragic eyes, a well-proportioned figure, slightly more...
...mountains, women are protected and respected, that a woman was once invited by a man to tread upon his cloak in order to avoid soiling her shoes. Such regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father. The two young people escape by clinging to a log rushed down the valley on a swollen stream...
...Story. Elmer Gantry of Paris, Kan., was born to be a talented garbage contractor or meat salesman. But his pious mother and the Baptist Church have given him everything except any longing for decency and kindness and reason." So they, and his well-developed thirst, lust and cowardice, drive him into the ministry. The first page finds him drunk in a saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned...
...legerity and yet not be trifling. Two of her lovely ladies, for example, tour France with a charming philanderer. They find him out in time to save their friendship and in a manner that saves their self-respect. Yet just before the climax, tragedy impends. In another story, the mother of a grown dolt launches him on a literary career by publishing her own work under his name. The son's character does not change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given to heroine-worship, is taught his wife's heroism. An over...