Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood and waved, but my mother-in-law reminded us of the old superstition that one must not watch people out of sight, so before they turned the bend we were back in our cars and on our way home...
...Hyde Park the servants* we brought from Washington suffered from a jinx which followed its course in three mishaps! My mother-in-law's serving table in the dining room has a center standard. Too many dishes were put on one side, and in the middle of the dinner the table tipped over. No one could think for a minute because of the noise of breaking china...
...into Southampton. A five-car special will whisk them to London, where their children, Queen Mary and the Cabinet will be waiting at the station. In the is-minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside the Houses of Parliament to cheer. State business-discussions with the Prime Minister of the international situation, rearmament, and the date of the general election, ceremonies...
...resolved by convincing the patient that he is re-experiencing emotional relations which had their origin [in early childhood]." Thus Freud gained, in his patients' minds, the authority of a dearly loved (or violently hated) father, or mother...
...Sergei was offered a $250-a-week job as an actor, in Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins of a nun." The Goritzins, who spoke emigre English, had a hard time finding another job, finally drifted into domestic service...