Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parting salute of two bursting bombs on the doorsteps of nonstriking street- car men, and New Orleans' street car strike which had lasted since July 2, came to end. The peace was made far from the scene of activities. Father John O'Grady of Washington, D. C., who was in New Orleans when the strike began and tried unsuccessfully to mediate, succeeded at last after consultations in Manhattan with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and with officials of the Public Service Co., and local union leaders...
Seated in the gallery, Widower MacDonald's sturdy helpmate-daughter Ishbel fairly glowed. She had never seen her father in finer fettle. She understood that he was making an international declaration of what is to be the foreign policy of the British Empire now that he has returned to power. He was taking the world into his confidence, laying his Socialist heart bare. With five prime ministers and 53 national delegations present and listening, apple-cheeked Ishbel MacDonald proudly watched the unfolding of her father's great speech...
Many an Italian is oftener a father than Il Duce. It only seems as though placid, soft-eyed Donna Rachele Mussolini bore a bouncing bambino every twelvemonth. Last week it was a mere girl-child? scarcely a major victory in the "Battle of the Babes"* which Dictator Mussolini keeps urging all Italian males to fight along with the "Battle of the Grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927, et seq.). When cables flashed news of this latest (fifth) Mussolini offspring, to be called "Anna Maria," observers plotted a battle chart of ages, intervals...
Helen Bonfils, daughter of Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post, was pictured and described in her father's newspaper. The description...
...because he thought she meant it when she said she was eloping with another man. Her mother-in-law, a certain doctor friend, and the rest of the town condemned her for infidelity both marital, of which they presumed her guilty in fact, and religious, for they knew her father hated God. After the mother-in-law dies, Marcia wins over the doctor and the town for the happy ending, by sheer force of youth, love, indifference. A satisfying story for those who like their moons made of sad sugar...