Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to prosper, was able to open a music shop and publishing house. At 23 he wrote his first important song, How Sweet Are the Roses, under the name of Alice Hawthorne. He followed it with such lyrics as What Is Home Without a Mother?, Rebecca at the Well, Motherless Kate, There Is Wealth for Honest Labor...
...Gigli) sing on the radio, Helen Carlton (Joan Gardner) has a shipboard romance with First Officer Hugh Anderson (Ivan Brandt) on the way to the U. S. Believing malicious gossip, she jilts Officer Anderson on arrival, rebounds into the arms of Tenor Curti, whom she meets after finding his motherless son (Richard Gofe) in the hotel corridor. Married, they go off on a world tour which gives opportunity for a sound montage of excerpts from nine of the great operas. In London comes the inevitable second encounter with First Officer Anderson...
...stepped into the national spot-light when she went with 79-year-old Grandfather John Manuel Landon to the Cleveland Convention last month, kept breathless cameramen, radio announcers, feminine newshawks and lady politicians on the run for three days. But she has long been well-known to Kansans. Left motherless at 13 months and reared by a soft-voiced, Irish nurse named Theresa Cahill, she was only 6 when her father began taking her on some of his oil-prospecting trips around the State. Ever since then they have been close companions. On his frequent nights away from home...
Acting upon an impulse which I imagined was largely a result of the particular mood I was in that day, I clipped from an insurance advertisement occupying p. 3 of your Sept. 16 issue, over a legend which ran in part "Motherless All Day. . ." the well-snapped picture of a round-eyed, marvelously wistful infant wearing an abused, tearful look of profound and perfect grief. Since then I have found that at least seven acquaintances also had the "impulse," saw, clipped the picture...
...from motherless, day or night, is the weeping infant in the Union Central Life Insurance Co. advertisement. He is Robert Jr., happy 18-month-old son of Lawyer & Mrs. Robert Burch of Winnetka, swank Chicago suburb. The Burches let their son pose as a favor to their friend, Photographer Arthur Dailey of Evanston, Ill., who had received an order for "a photo of a healthy baby with lots of personality, crying as if its heart would break ... a cry of neglect and not of anger." Photographer Dailey worked for more than an hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected...