Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...
...triteness of Jim Tally's plot, exaggerated coarseness of language, superficiality of dialogue, are more than offset by two redeeming features: the authentic note (struck most poignantly when Actor Robeson sings the spiritual, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child") of the Negro's inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble...
...were admitted as Germans. The mother was denied entrance because she had been born aboard a Dutch ship in the port of Antwerp, and the Dutch quota for 1923-1924 was exhausted. Perforce the mother retired to troubled Europe. But she left the children in this country, in the motherless care of a father, because at some future time when she returns to America-in a Dutch quota-there might not be an unfilled German quota to accommodate her children...
...still strong, but?"Too old," said employer after employer. She sank from poverty to poverty?jobs got fewer and fewer. Accident rescued her at last?and put her in charge of the motherless little Meyerbogens?children of an enormous, kindly, widowed baker at Coronation Point. They appreciated her?at last she began to belong to a real family. And there settled, for the time at least, and, fairly content, we leave...