Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Robert Benehley in the same reel of talkies as Bernard Shaw, and the boy from Kiskiminetas telling mother what the fellows down in C-entry, Persis Smith, think of birth control, and Mr. Tunney off to his love with a boxing glove, ten thousand miles away, instances of distinguished courage among the educated are growing many. But each of these heroes has his audience, and can forget the sordidness of it all in the bitter-sweet taste of his own exhibitionism. What comfort can be given to the Senior, unfortunate in possessing emotional and romantic nerve centers that were...
...agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pulled out of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, a bedraggled police dog, whose master, one John Schweighart, had put him into the river at Albany; that he might swim to Manhattan in a shorter time than the human mother who last accomplished this tiresome feat...
...Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman family the Atlanta school was founded...
...Smith once flayed Publisher Hearst as follows: "He has not got a drop of good, clean, pure, red blood in his whole body. And I know the 'color of his liver, and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow. . . . That fellow nearly murdered my mother. . . . Foul, dirty pen . . . slimy ink. . . . Greatest living enemy of the people whose cause he pretends to espouse...
...Dear Commander Byrd: A little while ago I asked mother if ten dollars would be enough to come in handy if sent to you, and she said 'yes.' Therefore I decided to send you ten dollars which I earned this Summer by painting the piazza roof, washing the muresco off the walls and ceiling of the bathroom, weeding the garden and various other similar jobs. I thought you might be able to buy some extra things...