Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson, mother of two children, has long had a passionate, if amateur, interest in world affairs. Five years ago, in an effort to do her bit in molding the world, she got into Democratic politics in Minnesota. She worked diplomatically and well, became a national committeewoman, helped to swing the state to the Democrats...
Harmonious Feeling. Lean, long-legged Noel Haviland Field was born in London of an English mother and an American father. In 1920 he came to the U.S. with his German wife Herta, went to Harvard. In the early '30s he worked for the State Department's Western European section. In 1936 he switched to the disarmament section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Herta, it was rumored, did not like...
...international smart set's Lady Mendl, eightyish, tempted the palates of Vogue readers with her own recipes for some dishes that mother never even thought of making, e.g., Kidneys Ali-Bab ("brown one pound of veal kidneys . . . set aflame with a glass of brandy...
...NORTHAMPTON MASS" it said. That didn't make any sense. Vag went on. "SORRY CAN'T COME FOR GAME MUST STAY WITH SICK MOTHER STOP SOME OTHER TIME," Vag read it carefully twice over, then crumpled it into a small ball and flipped it toward the wastebasket. It bounced off the rim, and sat smugly on the edge...
...play a comedy, and we must accept his word for that, even though the tragic fate of the two young lovers does not comply with the conventional comedy ending. Perhaps the comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...