Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record, measured against ordinary lives and voyages, is worth respect. Next week, Captain Robert Dollar will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday by sailing on his S. S. President Taft for his fiftieth circumnavigatory voyage since the initiation of the Dollar Line's round-the-world service in 1924. "Mother" Dollar, shipmate of 33 crossings to China and Japan, and on his previous world cruises, will share his cabin. Next week, another one of Robert Dollar's ships, the President Polk, will back out of Singapore, bound for New York. On May 10, the President Polk will leave pier...
...Helen Mar with her cargo had disappeared under the Indian Ocean in 1844. The family which lived at Falkirk, Scotland, was poor. Robert Dollar's mother died, and his father began to drink. At 13 Robert Dollar emigrated to Canada, got a job as chore boy to a cook in a lumber camp...
...this statement was not contradicted as its ageless plot unfolded. He laughed to see the blatantly promiscuous bachelor of forty-five summers getting engaged to a sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When the sixteen-year-old met the bachelor's nephew, danced with him and kissed him, the man watched it and was happy. When she ran off to "park her girdle" he was made...
...Mother Machree. William Fox has rediscovered that "Mother" is the sweetest word at the box office. A month ago he released Four Sons, maternal, Bavarian. This week, he released Mother Machree, an Irish valentine. It tells of Ellen (Belle Bennett), who hears in her little Ballymore cottage that her husband has been killed in a sea tornado. With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also...
...particular interest to the Indian were the summer and winter ceremonies, for his life was ordered to a great extent in conformity to the changing seasons. The beginning of the new year was the first day of Spring when the new life from Mother Earth commenced to manifest itself. Then was the time for the planting of seed for the food crops. All was accomplished by the dramatization of planting, germination, and growth...