Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles...
...vital, the wind of politics and of poetry would have swelled them, and allied them with notions of honor." Puzzling Parents. George Santayana writes of his father's beliefs with the same care and exactitude that he devotes to those of Lucretius and William James, and analyzes his mother's independent mind as if she too were a philosopher. He discovered his mother's poems, kept in secret and sent to his father 20 years after their separation, and her letters: "I am glad that our son has no inclination to be a, soldier. . . . Barbarous customs that...
...nurses who "arrived as if by magic" was pretty, dark-haired Sister Betty Clarke, 29. She, too, wrote home-an ecstatic letter to her mother: "Exciting news for you. I am nursing the Prime Minister. Isn't it an honor? With another sister I set out at 4 a.m. to an unknown destination. Quite the sort of thing that happens in a storybook. . . . We share the nursing duties. There is not very much to do for him. It has been a wonderful experience. So many distinguished people. We want for nothing. The countryside is lovely-hedges of cacti...
...began when Miss Abbott left Hollywood - where she had moved up from bit dancing parts to leads in a few horse operas - to look after her ailing mother. A shameless doll lover, she dressed up a small bisque (ceramic) baby doll for a friend who worked at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Next day she had 450 orders from admiring Met employes. Of her original "Hush-a-bye Baby" model she now says, "it became so popular we had to drop it." It gave her no time for her main idea: to make collections of "storybook dolls" illustrating nursery tales...
...torment her guests by emphasizing their stupidities. Niles did not know why he suddenly began a love affair with his cousin. Victoria did not know why she began a loveless affair with a doctor. Their neighbors, who watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began to cry with the back...