Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sign!" someone shouted in the crowd. "Sign for your mother's sake...
...thank you for reminding me of my mother," said he. "That courageous woman would not have her son take such an unworthy step. I will not sign...
...Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 19, cinemactor; to Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay La Sueur), 21, cinemactress; in Manhattan. Cinemactor Fairbanks is Senior Fairbanks' son by his first wife (Beth Sully), who was only family member present at ceremony. Returned to the Hotel Algonquin Mrs. Crawford-Fairbanks wrote: "Dear Mother: It is but an hour since. . . ." Said Cinemactor Fairbanks; "Our affair was a sweet and romantic one." Too busy, they said, to honeymoon, they returned soon after the wedding to Hollywood to resume work, he with First National Pictures, she with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither has been married before...
Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...
...Rodney Greene, middleaged, has principles. Her campaign of goodness starts when her husband attempts to pollute their nuptial night with cigaret smoke. She bullies her son Geoffrey with sarcasm and pathos, drives him to mask his independence. Thus she realizes her own ideal of good wife, good mother. She invites the other five to a dinner-party...