Word: mothers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when, at the age of six, he got diphtheria. Omaha health officers, going to the Goodman home, found Johnny sleeping with three other children in one bed, four more Goodman children in another bed in the same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep him from the other children. The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away. Johnny...
When he was 11, Johnny started to caddy at the Omaha Field Club, contributed his earnings of 50? a day toward the support of the ten Goodman children after their mother died and their happy-go-lucky father wandered off to try his luck in Wyoming. A likable little towhead, Johnny soon found himself the pet of the club members, was encouraged to practice with their sticks on the back part of the links. The first time he played nine full holes of the club course he shot a 37, one over par. That was in the 1923 caddies...
Still his mother's son, Johnny Goodman refuses to be lionized, particularly by the Omaha bourbons in whose company he feels uncomfortable lest he make a faux pas such as saying "amachure" instead of "amateur." Amateur or amachure, he is the best his sport has produced in the U. S. in a decade...
...when Mr. Mitchell could not sell them at that price, he had hung on to them. Parker Morelli, promptly putting all 14 on sale, by last week had sold the lot-at prices ranging from $15 to $25. One 1905 yellow roadster (see cut) had two upholstered "mother-in-law" seats behind the driver. It goes 35 (with some difficulty), is not bad on hills...
...pseudonym, it is a record of a drab and distressing life, makes prostitution attractive to nobody. Its author seems intelligent, unsentimental but strangely apathetic, gives the impression that she could have escaped her environment but stayed in it because she suspected that possible alternatives would be equally bad. Her mother was a screaming, hard-drinking nervous case, her father a whining incompetent...