Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though these developments convinced many persons of the immaculate innocence of Mother Concepcion, they comprised a mere incident in the broad and sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...
...when someone came down the passage past her door that night, she thought something more would be in order; so she grabbed a man who turned out to be, not her lieutenant, but the butcher's boy, creeping to a kitchen rendezvous. Soon the balmy girl became a mother. Her uncle dragged the lieutenant toward her, stressing the necessity for nuptials. Unable to agree, the lieutenant began by protesting his innocence of even the preliminaries of fatherhood; but eventually, finding some obscure charm in the lady's dementia, he claimed the bastard as his own, embraced...
...Circus. Two significant features of this piece: it is aeronautical but has nothing to do with the 1914-18 shellfire; its cast includes Louise Dresser, who was in two Manhattan cinema openings last week (see A Ship Comes In.) Miss Dresser may be depended upon when she assumes a mother role. She looks not unlike Irene Rich and shares with her the distinction of most able protagonist of domesticity among cinemactresses. As the mother of Buddy Blake, aviator-aspirant, Louise Dresser is properly maternal when her son fails to pass a test, is properly proud when he does pass...
Married. Prince Alexander Bariatinsky, 23, grandson of the late Tsar Alexander II; to Princess Olga Mossalkaka, 17, granddaughter of the late Col. Peter Mossalkaka of the Imperial Russian Army; in Washington, D. C. Also married last week was Princess Olga's mother, Princess Vera Pleschkova-Mossalkaka, 34, to Alexander S. Georgiades, onetime of Arcadia, Greece, now a Washington florist...
...Continental capitals and on the Riviera. In 1911 she won long-sought social standing by her marriage to Count von Treuberg, a bankrupt naval officer. She had arranged to pay him 25,000 marks, but never did so and the marriage was later annulled. Aviator Beese's father, mother and sister all were suicides before...