Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Northampton, Mass., came the news that Mrs. Lemira B. Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Coolidge, "was not quite so well...
Gypsy. When Ellen (Claiborne Foster) was ten years old, she and her mother visited relations. The relations' quarters were cramped; mother and daughter had to sleep together. Another house guest was a man, about whom was a distinctive odor-surely not the odor of sanctity, for the Child Ellen awoke one night to find the bedroom permeated with the smell of the man. This was Ellen's first experience in marital infidelity. In later years her experiences were not so vicarious...
...struggling scrivener, her second affair, and leaves her husband when that entity softly reminds her that after all, he is her husband, and won't she have dinner with him? For four months she lives with the scrivener, despite the plea of her now thrice-wed mother, who begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news Ellen screams, "Isn't she priceless?" But the effect is so profound that Ellen...
...Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, younger sons and still resident at Buckingham Palace, ask their mother's permission if they wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
...swept into the ephemeral list of bestsellers. The play opened last week in Manhattan after a happy spell (with a Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills her mother's blabbing by telling her that the affair is no news to her; she has known...