Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City in the number, the beauty, the distinction of its lady delegates. Mabel Walker Willebrandts were scarce, but the Bosses could outmatch Leona Curtis Knight, daughter of mere Vice-Presidential Curtis, with Emily Smith Warner, favorite daughter of the Brown Derby himself. Delegate Warner was not unbefriended. Her mother, husband,* sister, three brothers, many in-laws, were among the watched and watching observers. But she missed her father, sent him cheering messages...
...speech and said: "If what you said tonight could only reach the ears, the hearts and the souls of the citizens of New York and also of our great country they would be made to realize that the United States has no better friend than the Holy Mother Church...
...Mothers' Day is not in France an occasion for bestowing bonbons, greeting cards or bouquets upon any and every mother. With Latin thrift and logic only especially meritorious mothers are honored-by the State...
Sued for Divorce. The abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (now resident in Belgium as M. Carol Caraiman); by the Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of Baby King Mihai of Rumania, and sister of the deposed King George II of Greece; at Bucharest. Temporarily the suit will come before the Court of Appeals, spiritually before the Most Holy Myron Cristea, patriarchal Ecclesiarch ("Church Ruler") of the independent Rumanian Orthodox Church...
...thought so to win her, his calculations played him false. For Octavia's intense vitality was quickly engrossed in pursuit of hounds on the scent. Debonair Lord Tilbury loaded her with flowers, declared his love. And a highly respected Master of Hounds, dull, substantial, shy, delegated his mother to propose marriage. Octavia would make a fitting mistress to a world of vigorous horsemen...