Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt started it. In Hyde Park, where he had gone to vote, visit his mother, catch cold and be serenaded by shivering villagers after the Republicans swept the county, he told reporters what he thought of the transfer of U. S. ships to foreign flags...
...ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen...
...stage the late Clarence Day's saga of his own family during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own chronicle has no plot, no love interest, no mighty triumphs, no major catastrophes-only crusty, rambunctious Father, who lost almost every set-to; helpless, fluttering Mother, who won; and four redheaded boys. But Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse have turned the whole thing into a spirited, likable stage comedy. They have taken the sting out of Father...
...year-old woman, born in Pennsylvania, is known now as "Citizenness Ruth Friederichovna Eterger," and apparently has abandoned hopes of ever returning to the United States to see her nine-year-old daughter or her mother and stepfather who live in Miami...
...Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love or a jitterbug appreciate...