Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow is a well-educated woman. She studied at the Sorbonne and in Florence after graduation from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests, Mrs. Morrow, while raising four children, wrote poetry (Quatrains for My Daughter, Beast, Bird and Fish), and a child's book (The Painted Pig). She supervised the building of the beautiful Morrow house and gardens at Cuernavaca near Mexico City, helped Daughter Elisabeth run a school in Englewood, N. J., headed Englewood's City...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
Thus originated the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Vardis Fisher, a descendant of the Mormons, last week made into a brilliant 769-page Harper Prize Novel, Children of God, this story of Mormons and of their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...
...that he was, William Lamb owed to his mother, Lady Melbourne. She presented her husband with six children, few of whom were his. William was universally supposed to be the son of Lord Egremont, who, scandal had it, bought Lady Melbourne from Lord Coleraine for ?13,000, of which Lady Melbourne got a cut. ("Your mother is a whore," a young Cambridge friend once shouted at William's brother George...
...CHILDREN OF GOD-Vardis Fisher-Harper...