Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diaries contain not only accounts of the journey, but also maps, profile sections, and travelling directions. An early and much interlined draft of "Lord Jim" is also being exhibited. This draft is scribbled in a commonplace blank book which contains a few extracts in Polish, possibly in his mother's hand...
Engaged. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of Poet-Pundit Matthew Arnold and great granddaughter of Headmaster Thomas Arnold of Rugby; to Harry Forsyth. Her mother, Mrs. F. W. Whitridge, of Manhattan, is Matthew Arnold's daughter, Lucy, who was in part responsible for his visits to the U. S. (1883 and 1886). The fastidious Arnold, England's apostle of culture, was little pleased with the U. S., but felt much the same toward the England of his day. Upon his death in 1888, Oscar Wilde remarked: "Poor Arnold, he won't like...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
...naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation...
Science, History, Philosophy ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN Roy Chapman Andrews* - Putnam ($6). " Asia is the mother of the continents...