Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chuckled wickedly when a crimson blush of shame suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently...
...other son-in-law of Mrs. Kate ("Mother") Merrick is the Earl of Kinnoull. He, shameless, did not blush...
...general vote of confidence, which, if refused, would mean his fall. With crispness and power, the plump little man, white-bearded, flashing-eyed, set forth his universally known principles and concluded in smashing style: "The sons of France do not fight at the bedside of their sick mother! In the hour of crisis I grouped about me those who had opposed me. I do not regret my choice. Out of our collaboration and thanks to the yielding now of one side and now of the other sprang a new spirit of confidence and all that that made possible. Today...
Mihai, said to a U. S. citizen not a correspondent : "You may quote me with full authority as saying that Mihai is not abnormal in any way. He is neither backward nor precocious. He is not deaf. Sometimes it seems to his mother [Prin-cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even...
Milton D. Crandall, the shrewd and sportsmanlike promoter who was so nearly injured by his surly beneficiary, is a rather small man, partially blind, and an orphan. As a youth, without father or mother, he was thrust upon the world in Baltimore. At that time quite completely deprived of sight, he entrusted himself to a surgeon who, in the face of overwhelming odds, restored...