Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elizabeth Root Luce, 77, widow of the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, prominent missionary educator in China (1897-1926), and mother of Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; after a long illness; in Haverford...
...Thanksgiving. The Conway home is equipped with restaurant-size utensils, and when the kids were younger, the staggering meals were staggered: pre-school-age kids ate dinner in the kitchen at 6; elementary-school-agers in the breakfast room at 6:30, and the big kids with dad and mother in the dining room at 7 (Mrs. Conway died last August...
...were a violet sweater, ruby red lipstick, and gray flannel skirt, proving her Harvard fidelity. "I have trouble with my hose," she said, "but my mother didn't send any razor blades...
...mother was kind in a very strict way and every inch a lady. In the Oppenheimer household, it was possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
Misfortunes. Poe's story is not greatly changed by such new information as the full text of his letters provides; it merely seems more miserable. The child of actors, he lost his mother before he was three years old, and was taken into the household of John Allan, a Scot by birth, who inherited a considerable fortune-Poe estimated...