Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone call to her mother in Hollywood was Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
...says, "the curriculum can be exactly the same as a curriculum for men. But most girls work for a while, then get married and have children. There is need for improvement in education for the days before marriage, and also for preparing for the life of the postgraduate mother-when the children have grown up and left...
...biggest brush of all, Pablo Picasso, was tantalizingly obscure. Somebody (possibly Picasso himself) had signed his name to a list of French artists, most of them Communists, attacking the Marshallizing of French art. At the same time, Picasso had sold reproduction rights for at least one of his paintings, Mother and Child (see cut), to Hall Brothers, Inc. in a private deal last year. On the Riviera, old (67) Pablo Picasso labored in peace, saying nothing...
What impresses oldtimers (and boosts membership, now 1,300, at a rate of 15 to 20 a day) is Sylvia's knack for picking winners before they reach Broadway. Among her selections: Edward, My Son; Life With Mother; Anne of the Thousand Days; Death of a Salesman; Kiss Me, Kate. For this month she has chosen Sidney Kingsley's promising Detective Story. She has also closed a deal giving her members seats for April's South Pacific, whose author-producers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, are notoriously fussy about what happens to their tickets...
...their fears unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...