Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling" in the air. It had been raining all evening and the sky looked "queer." Said Father Griffith: "It looks like a storm coming." Then came a roar, a crashing sound as of houses falling, and beneath the feet of the Griffiths the floor lifted up. Don heard his mother call to him, then everything went black. Recovering consciousness, Don found himself lying in mud amid the ruins of the Griffith house...
...pleading insanity and saying he had been led astray, debauched. Ruth Snyder, the wife, was professing horror and penitence, calling her paramour a low "jackal." Also there was even a child, Lorraine Snyder, aged 9, to heighten the emotionalism of the trial. Lorraine still believed her father and mother were temporarily away "on a trip...
...Chambersburg, Pa., one Tommy Ruby, 4, took a .22 calibre pistol from the kitchen shelf, went out to the garden where his mother knelt planting seeds, pointed the pistol at her neck, pulled the trigger. . . . She soon died. . . . While the coroner questioned him, Tommy snatched up a long knife, screamed, "I'll cut you up!" Concerning his mother's death, he boasted, "NOW I can get matches...
...incident pinked British sentimentalism near the heart. Next day London newspapers were ecstatic. Royalty and Sir James were served up in a golden haze of Peter Pantheism. Then a despatch arrived from Sydney, Australia, where Baby Betty's mother, the Duchess of York, was sojourning with the Duke after arriving from England on H. M. S. Renown. The despatch told, briefly that on the outward voyage the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting disported themselves nightly with the Duke and members of his suite by dancing the authentic Charleston. As a result, continued the despatch, numerous British tars...
Philip Danforth Armour I (1832-1901) established the business. His father was a farmer at Cazenovia, N. Y. His mother had been a schoolteacher. She taught him stern honesty; the father taught him industry. Shrewdness was inherent...