Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge continued well last week and accompanied the President to a dinner given by the Hoovers. But the condition of her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who had been lying ill in Northampton, Mass., for three months, became more serious. Accompanied by White House Physician Joel T. Boone and by Mrs. Reuben B. Hills of Northampton, her friend since girlhood, Mrs. Coolidge went home. Mrs. Goodhue rallied, then sank again. John Coolidge went down from Amherst to join his mother, accompanied by Miss Florence Trumbull. They waited...
...daughter of the late Seattle gold rusher "Jack" Miller, and is now in India, chaperoned, according to despatches, by her mother & grandmother...
...soldier who achieved these things was born in Naples, his father a commoner, his mother a baroness. Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than...
...mother [Dowager], Queen Marie, and my sister, Princess Ileana, will soon visit me in Paris. It is a fact that important political events are occurring in Rumania. That is the reason my mother is coming to confer with...
There are, as he thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English...