Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge, home from Amherst for Easter, entertained his college-mates Jack Hills and Edward Young in a manner they will not soon forget, as White House guests. . . . Mrs. Coolidge left Washington to go to Northampton, Mass., where her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue long ill, was reported to be "in a critical condition...
...woman about to have a child can file with the People's court three months before its birth the name of the father. If he does not protest it is taken for granted that he is the father and he is held, equally with the mother, responsible for the child's support. . . . The original Communist theory that the State should be responsible for children has been abandoned. It is still held [only] by such champions of free love as Alexandra Kollontai . . . now [Soviet] Minister to Norway (TIME...
...success. Then nearly all of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers created Mr. Fixits. The present one on the Baltimore Post is George Browning, who is cheered as loudly as the mayor when he appears in public. He has been little-johnny-sunshine to newsboys and millionaires. When the mother of a rabbi was in a delirium and needed absolute quiet, he got the highways bureau to close her street to traffic for ten days, until she recovered...
Died. Mrs. Charlotte Smith Pickford, 55, mother of Cinemactors Mary, Lottie and Jack Pickford; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting (it is awful). There is no market in South Africa for fitful canvases. Finally, he leaves home, finds a job in the coal mines near Johannesburg. When he hears that his mother is threatened with cancer, he blows off three fingers of his right hand so that he can collect insurance money to send his mother to a reliable doctor in England. That is the end of the story...