Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condescension of a fellow who was ready to enter Harvard. Uncle Alan (Walter Catlett) collected stamps. Brother Herbert (John Carradine) called himself a postsurrealist; he painted sublimations in bathrooms, on bay windows, hired a man to douse him with water when working on a marine subject. Mother Pemberton (Mary Boland) was notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family for three dollars to pay her bookmaker. Papa Pemberton (Etienne Girardot) might have received...
...ballet, Elisabeth and Annemarie are otherwise very different. Ambitious Elisabeth leaves home, becomes a ballet dancer, marries and divorces a rich nobleman, who thought her hard work as indecent as her scanty costumes. Then she becomes involved with a dope fiend who is a composer. When their mother dies, sweet-tempered Annemarie reluctantly joins her sister on the stage. As the Sisters Vernova they dazzle the world. Still unspoiled, Annemarie goes to pieces on a U. S. tour, but a marriage resigns her to her ruined career. Elisabeth, momentarily depressed, sails for Japan. An English duke soon restores the sparkle...
...sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her-richest woman...
Every high school and college in the country has an English Department, but when Harvard officially recognized a state of war in 1776 by conferring an LL.D. on General Washington, it was proclaiming for all time its intellectual independence from the Mother Country. Since that time the University has conscientiously tried to develop native talent in every field, and it can now be justly regarded as a center of American culture...
Most influential characters, though not always the most important, are the members of the powerful banking House of Coleman: flighty, spoiled Dowager Fanny Coleman; her children: square-faced, ruthless Christopher, executive head of the business, who engineers his mother into an asylum; Greg, a notorious playboy; Corinne, sexually inhibited divorcee; Gay, a liberal professor at Columbia University. Considering each of the Colemans as a main stream of his story, Author Rice feeds into them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife...