Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...kill his mother at her own pleadings, or to let a painful cancer kill her, was the problem put to one Richard Corbett, intelligent young Englishman. The two, since his father's death, had lived together in southern France. Last November Mrs. Corbett's cancer became unmanageable...
Edward of Wales provided Cora, who always sleeps in his room, with a portable kennel last week. Cora, a Cairn terrier, deserves more luxurious quarters, it was felt, because six weeks ago she became the mother of five. Her new kennel is an ingenious affair of canvas with collapsible struts, the whole folding into a neat bundle that can travel with the Prince and Cora wherever they...
...What is so terrible about it?" expostulates her mother. "The shore is wide enough for us to pass by her. . . . You are already jealous of Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and I am the widow of General von Palikow. Well, doesn't that mean that we are two fortresses to which people who don't belong to us have no entree? . . . We simply issue a decree?and Madame Grill ceases to exist...
...been the history of many a U. S. scandal. But such was not the case last month when 19-year-old Howard, Prince of Sagan, son of the Duchess de Talleyrand, who was Anna, the daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke and Duchess...