Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery came as no surprise to Dowling's family and friends, who had watched him closely since his birth. "I always knew my Brain would be a Hero," his mother often says...
...just wanted to cover the police courts, and the blotters, things like that. I had a typewriter, that's all. I had a little space in the house, on Newman Park, I lived with my mother there at the time. Putting out 10,000 papers in those days, an eight-page tabloid, the cost is only 75 to 80 dollars a week...
...giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter of a century was to stunt his growth as a performer while it made him a rich man. In recovering from the aftereffects of Eugene's birth, his mother, who had hoped for a daughter, became addicted to morphine-a tragic accident for which his older brother Jamie held Eugene half responsible...
...thing, he did not, as his sons charged, hire a quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with his mother, because it was toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have escaped what that 'curse' had done to their lives." Sheaffer fails to develop this suggestion beyond referring...
...living on a dark estate enclosed by a great fence with barred and guarded gates. Within, he would enjoy all the prerequisites of comfort and happiness, including, as Agnes Boulton reported it, unlimited power "over ideas; over things; over people." He came nearest to this role of father-mother deity in his writing, which he once referred to rather chillingly as "my vacation from living...