Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother's Boy. Three years ago 41-year-old Tommy Hitchcock won a commission in the Army Air Forces. "Polo is exciting," he once remarked, "but you can't compare it to flying in wartime. That's the best sport in the world." He never got back into combat. When he died he was a lieutenant colonel doing tactical research for the Ninth Air Force...
Like an acrobat's child, Tommy Hitchcock was trained for his career almost from infancy. His father, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., was captain of the U.S.'s first international polo team (1886), later became the country's No. 1 steeplechase trainer. Tommy's mother was called "the Mother of American Polo." She was Louise Eustis Hitchcock, daughter of James Biddie Eustis, Grover Cleveland's Ambassador to France. Prime mover in the horsy affairs of Aiken, S.C., she set Tommy in a saddle when he was three, started his polo training when he was five...
...friend who sings in opera (Metropolitan Diva Risé Stevens), he sells so effectively that the parish, despite a disastrous fire, rises clear of all financial problems. And just before he leaves St. Dominic's to trouble-shoot for another decrepit priest, he brings Father Fitzgibbon's mother across on a surprise trip from Ireland, for the picture's unusually valid and powerful tear-jerking climax...
They Dare Not Go AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South...
...dead. The senior girls remembered him, used to discuss him loudly when Edith was in hearing distance, praising him to the skies to salt the wound of her ignorance of him. But when one of them said he must have been a cad to have left Edith's mother, Edith slapped her, nearly got expelled...