Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican onyx by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles. Its transportation from St. Paul, Minn, indicated the ambitiousness of the Museum's show. Other monumental statues were a bronze by the late, great Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman, and an already famed piece in marble by William Zorach, Mother and Child...
Died. Mrs. Mary Hamilton, 81, mother of Republican National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Pepita she now offers the two latest portraits of her "too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy" family. The first is of her gypsy grandmother Pepita Duran y Ortega; the second of her mother, who died last year at 73. Tall, Andalusian Pepita was descended from a hot-blooded family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made...
...diplomatic finesse is that he "managed to keep Pepita as his mistress and Queen Victoria as his employer concurrently for nearly twenty years." When Pepita died in childbirth at 40 she left five children. Queen Victoria's namesake, Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina, Author Sackville-West's mother, was the second oldest. Pepita's story, because she herself never speaks in it, has the atmosphere of the old silent cinema. Victoria's is well wired for sound, even some fury...
Author Sackville-West was their only child. By the time her memories begin, her mother was well launched on a career of making married life interesting. "How my mother puzzled me, and how I loved her!" she declares. Recklessly extravagant in gaudy gimcracks, her mother saved wrapping paper and string, wrote letters on toilet paper. When she got a fresh air mania, she propped open all the doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored...