Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Augustus White Shakespeare Quartos safely and gratefully received. This gift marks an epoch in the history of Harvard Library. Our warmest thanks to your mother, to the members of your family, and to yourself. (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
...Italian quarter of New York gives a clear-cut sensation of a transplanted fragment of the mother country. . . . You know the dream of all Italians in America is to return to Italy...
...contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...
...celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When his eyes were assailed by this dreadful representation, John S. Sumner whistled with dismay and wrote as follows to Nathan Levy, the art dealer in whose window the Andromache had been conspicuously hung...
Jeritza said she had gone to Paris against her will, at the pleading of: 1) the director of the Vienna Opera Company; 2) her mother-in-law, Baroness von Popper of Paris; 3) the Austrian Government. But when she reached Paris no Austrian delegation met her train; no critics were invited to her performances; her operatic stature was in no way suitably emphasized. Jeritza refused the little medal she had been offered. She said...