Word: fatherless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warrior father fare forth to battle, return victorious; fare forth again, return defeated; fare forth a third time to fetch Princess Guzisur, Temugin's 14-year-old affianced bride. On the journey the old man dies. The sworn marriage contract is broken, for of what use is fatherless Temugin as an ally? Ignoring the insult, an old minister of state tricks halfhearted vassal princes into allegiance to Temugin, and year after year the youth leads them into desultory warfare with faint glory and inconsiderable plunder...
Dearie (Irene Rich). The lengths to which the U. S. Mother will go in order to send a fatherless son through college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...
...Years ago, during the Russo-Japanese War, I had a most pleasant acquaintanceship with Baron Kentaro Kaneko, now a Marquis. I was able to be of service to him, and Mrs. MacVeagh was helpful in managing a pageant for the benefit of Japanese children made fatherless through...
...been announced that the collection of sheets from the "Fatherless Children of France Book", which have been on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library since January 9, will be withdrawn in the near future. This collection consists of 350 original manuscripts and sketches by distinguished writers and artists of the Allied Nations...
...collection, which is valued at many thousand dollors, is in charge of the president of the Fatherless Children of France society, Mr. Saymour Legrand Cromwell '92, president of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Cromwell and his associates are anxious to have the collection bought and deposited in a library where it will be preserved intact...