Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Corbett assumed the responsibility. He gave his suffering mother a narcotic. Then he shot her through the head. Next he shot himself, but lived. Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...
...fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker of men. When a Stroud wanted something. Destiny...
Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle never knew whether it was the Master of Fassefern who had sired her, or Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...
Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...
...Chicago he was banqueted by friends. Said he of Spokane: "It is really brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice." Poet Stoddard King of Spokane wrote farewell verses...