Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What if a few details in the lead were manifestly not so, even after the revelation? That, for instance, she, now 15, has not yet "in- herited" the estate, which is to be held by her mother in trust until Doris is 35? Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir? The serious thing was that the main lead, keeping within the law, held interest through three paragraphs only by a deliberate misstatement. Taxes paid to a county or state are not earmarked for any particular disbursement...
...Silver Cord?"Now to go home and shoot Mother"?on Sidney Howard's advice...
...some of his power, his money. Little Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother-of-the-world could for her son, departs in gratitude for Paris...
...travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike, Clifford is some kind of fairy changeling...
...Cleveland Museum of Art had last week just opened its exhibit of 156 foreign paintings chosen from the recent International display of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute (TIME, Oct. 11 et seq.). Among them was a certain "Portrait of My Mother," not by Whistler, but by a friend of Whistler, Ambrose McEvoy, R. A., 48, noted British painter of women. On the day the Cleveland exhibit opened, Painter McEvoy died, in London. A palm spray was placed beneath the portrait of his mother...