Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order of the Holy Cross was founded in 1884, among the teeming tenements of Manhattan's Lower East Side, by an earnest young Harvardman, Father James Otis Sergent Huntington. Gifts from inter ested Episcopalians and fees for preaching have kept it alive. Since 1904 the Order's mother house has been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi...
...greatest Christian city in the Orient." It shows, still more dreadfully, the destruction wrought upon the mild, brave people who lived in it: children who were shot down as they prayed; gnarled stacks of bodies burned alive; people who were killed with their hands tied behind them; a bayoneted mother & child at the feet of the Virgin. It shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners...
...Pictures), which suggests an infinitely diluted yet engaging version of Hamlet, is the story of an intelligent, intuitive youth (James Lydon), whose dreams cause him to suspect that his father did not die by accident. He further suspects that the man (Warren William) who is about to marry his mother (Sally Eilers) was the murderer. Helped by his sweetheart (Mary McLeod) and an older friend (Regis Toomey), and dangerously hindered by the suitor and his crooked psychoanalyst henchman (Charles Arnt), the youth turns his dreams into capital evidence. The picture is not strong on suspense, but as straight drama much...
...Prolific Mother. At 50, with no pre vious experience, she began to pour out volume after volume of remunerative fiction and travelogue. Most of the characters she introduced were old friends and acquaintances: "Of course," she said airily, "I always pulp (them) before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage." This was no consolation to the American public, which foamed at the sprightly invective and caricature in Mrs. Trollope's first book, Domestic Man ners of the Americans. The book was a financial success, but not sufficiently so to relieve the author...
...Anthony, "a hobbledehoy of 19, without any idea of a career," Frances obtained a clerkship in the London Post Office. Tom, her other son, joined his mother in writing money-making fiction...