Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty herself wore pink. Her dress was studded with sequins; her hat was large and sprouted six ostrich plumes. A young gallant brought his mother over to see her. "I've always wanted to meet you," said the young gallant's mother. "My father, who was Barney Baruch's younger brother, was madly in love with you when you were on the stage." Piped young Talbot: "That's nothing. My grandfather had a crush on you, too." Replied Betty: "I remember him well. He and I were having a beer at Delmonico's the night...
...wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...
...ancestry, there was plenty of force, vitality, toughness, love of action. His mother was descended from a doughty line of French Huguenots; one of them was a rifle-shooting chaplain with George Washington's army. Another was a hell-for-leather cavalryman in the Civil...
...time Howard Hughes's mother, Allene Gano, was born, the family was established in the top drawer of Texas aristocracy...
Howard's mother died when Howard was 17, and after that Hughes Sr., always indulgent, became even more so. He sent Howard abroad accompanied by Dudley Sharp and packing an allowance of $5,000 or more a month. In Brussels, Hughes took a fling at roulette. Playing only red or black, he ran a stake of $10 up to $10,000, lost it all on one spin of the wheel, left the table without a word...