Word: maud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirty-eight-year-old Mrs. Maud Ethel Pope went to an Atlanta hospital complaining of a backache, explained that she was expecting her 22nd child and had overexerted herself digging a 25-ft. well and building a house...
...gift, with string attached, came from United Fruit Co.'s President Samuel Zemurray, no Harvardman himself. A committee of Harvard professors, representing departments from fine arts to physics, solemnly scoured all available corridors of learning for a suitable candidate. They finally found her in England: Dr. Helen Maud Cam, 62, a tweedy, vigorous history don at Cambridge (her specialty: medieval local government). She would be the first woman professor of arts & sciences in Harvard's 312 years...
Until she was 19, Helen Maud never went to school; her father, a parson and schoolmaster, tutored her at home. She learned enough to win a scholarship at the University of London, has been leading a serenely academic life ever since...
...Atlanta, Maud Ethel Pope, 38, who married her husband when she was 11 and he was 12 because he was the "prettiest thing I ever saw," was expecting her 22nd child. Nine children are living...
Some unaccountably stayed put. Sample: Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson Henjes. Last March, when she was still Maud Stevenson and yachtsman Robert H. Henjes was only her "boyfriend" (her own term), she & he tiffed. The tiff wound up in a Long Island police station where Maud, stripped down to brassiere and half slip, bit and kicked a cop like nobody's business...