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...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...
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger. "This man," wrote Yeats later, "I had deemed a drunken, vainglorious lout." And soon after the birth of their son, Maud and Major MacBride were separated. After the Easter Rising in 1916, the major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts...
...phoenix of the ancients had lived upwards of 500 years, it retired to await death in the high branches of an oak or palm tree. From there a young phoenix would rise to carry the spent body of his parent to the altar of the sun. By last week Maud Gonne MacBride was 81, bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition, but last month...
...guerrilla, journalist and orator, he had been in jail often, studied law on the side. In 1937, still wanted by the police, he had succeeded in sitting for his law examinations at Dublin's University College and taking a degree with honors before making his getaway. He was Maud Gonne's son, Sean MacBride...