Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balked by a Coast Guard cutter in his attempt to reach Florida by canoe, Richard W. Hourtley '40 returned yesterday afternoon to his mother at Darien, Connecticut...
Almo B. Franzoni, chief state investigator, announced Monday that records of a mother and two children who disappeared from Milton, Vermont, in 1923 had been found whose ages, heights, and general characteristics almost exactly corresponded with the estimates of anthropologists who examined the skeletons here under the direction of Dr. Woodbury two years...
...most gripping element in the drama, however, is its creation of characters and its treatment of them. The two chief men are debased by the over-whelming catastrophes that hit the family, while a third male is left his ludicrously parasitic self. The mother of the family, however, is ennobled from the position of a comical termagant to that of a tight-lipped, long-suffering heroine. When the daughter is deserted in pregnancy by her shallow, pedantic lover, only the mother is able to pierce the hollow censure of society, and acquit her of guilt. The father is brutalized...
...urgent instigation of the Darien, Connecticut, boy's mother, during the last few days forty Coast Guard cutters from three States have been combing the seas from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras in a desperate endeavor to discover the whereabouts of the prodigal...
...continued, and sit down. You will answer these questions as I ask them: name and address? occupation? name of each parent? Then he leaned forward. What are their ages? Realizing that this was an important question, the Vagabond only lied by seven years for the sake of his mother. Where were you born? The Vagabond responded: Hopeville. Oh, Hopeville, he said. Yes, the Vagabond said, Hopeville. Well, well, he commented...