Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last to talk to the 22 year-old College junior were his mother and younger brother, Thomas, on the night of January 23 at 10 o'clock in the family's Boston residence at 184 Beacon Street. The family's greatest fear is that Sylvester Gardiner may have gone through treacherous ice after he left them, possibly to indulge in moonlight skating on the Charles River...
...without soapbox oratory. It less reviles Profiteer Keller than it sternly reveals him: he has rationalized his guilt by telling himself that he acted like any "practical" American; he has sloughed off his responsibility to society by concentrating on his duty to his family. In Chris and his mother, too, tribal loyalties clash with human obligations...
...Macloud was impatient, but at 80, having bossed the Macloud household for 50-odd years, she knew a trick or two. That evening in St. Louis, while waiting for her eldest, son to call, she wore her grey silk dress and looked as calm as Whistler's mother. The lamp over her chair was lit, but her eyes were closed and her head was tilted back, "as if some beneficent rays were reaching her from the 60-watt bulb...
...last the door chimes echoed through the house. "Well, child," she said to Edwina, "what are you waiting for?" Poor, flustered Edwina, whose childhood dated back to the days of the St. Louis World's Fair (and whose corset hurt her, besides), stammered, "But, mother, aren't you . . .?" Edwina sprang nervously, dropped her needlework, began fussing with her dress and her hair. By the time she reached the front hall, the colored maid had opened the door. There was Mal, her brother. And there, standing with him, was Nora, his grown daughter, whom none of the family...
...Nebraska lawyer, Professor Pound followed his mother into botany in his college days, taking his degree in that subject from his state's university in 1888 at the age of 17. He was granted a Master's degree the following year and in 1897 earned a Ph.D. in botany...