Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many Spanish kings of the present Bourbon line have suffered from melancholia that last week Grandees of the Spanish Court evinced some uneasiness as King Alfonso XIII continued sunk in brooding, introspective grief for his late mother, Queen Maria Christina, who died just one month...
...nine days after laying his mother to rest, His Majesty remained in his personal suite at the Palacio Real in Madrid, and would not allow any member of the Royal Family to leave the palace. Since he has emerged from these days of meditation and prayer, Alfonso de Bourbon has seemed listless and melancholic. Last week it was thought that General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera has found this royal mood a favorable one in which to induce the King to sign several more decrees strengthening the Rivera grip of iron on Spain...
Lucky Boy (Tiffany-Stahl). George Jessel's clear, vigorous singing of three theme songs better than the average prevents his first sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small...
...then one day met the Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
When her son Richard Evelyn Jr. grows up and finds himself a wife, Mrs. Byrd will give Evelyn Byrd's ring to the new bride, just as, 14 years and a month ago, she received it from her mother-in-law, Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., who still lives tranquilly at Winchester. . . . The discovery of Marie Byrd Land seemed likely to mark the end of Byrd explorations by air this year in Antarctica. Ice floes were closing in at the approach of antarctic winter. Last week the supply ship Eleanor Bolling was hurrying from New Zealand to succor...