Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News: "If it was a loan, the . . . executives who inherited the paper . . . could properly enter a claim against the rest of the estate." Still missing were Porter's voluminous personal papers, which Countess Felicia Gizycka, Cissy's daughter, hoped to use in her fight to break her mother's will. Times-Herald staffers were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about the countesses, ex-countesses and other celebrities in the fight over the will. In a crowded elevator he saw a Times...
...share a Manhattan mansion. One couple is incredibly frivolous and snobbish; another is grubby, worthy and naive; both are caricatures, while the third is merely colorless. Never deviating from formula, Town House first shows the couples squabbling with one another, then shows them squabbling among themselves, introduces a snooty mother, a sassy child, and a big shot neighbor who first wishes them all in hell and finally carries them all to heaven...
When Margaret Webster was three years old, her mother, the late Dame May Whitty, used to read her to sleep with Shakespeare. Those words have been ringing in Miss Webster's ears ever since...
...burden of his life. He was "deep," and brainy enough to see and explore with detachment the dangers, for one of his heritage, in the life of imagination. For generations that heritage had been profoundly Puritan. After his sea-captain father died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some...
After graduation, at which his classmate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read a paper on the need for a native American literature, Hawthorne went home to his mother's house in Salem and worked at writing. In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English. Cantwell has looked up the Hawthornes' library record. He deliberately studied New England, reading among other things the files of Salem newspapers during Hawthorne's lifetime. "The books," Cantwell writes, "provide an almost weekly record...