Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kicked into his grave. The fact that John had once knocked out "our Frank," was so hotly resented by the good people of Ohio that they urged him thereafter to spend most of his time in Washington, D. C., as Senator from the state now known as the Mother of Presidents...
...mother died when he was three years old, and he went to his mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
...Each oarsman of the rowing squad will have a mother among us" said Mrs. Roger Merriman addressing the Harvard Dames yesterday. A motion was passed that each member of the crew be invited to tea where they will be personally cautioned. "Every one should guard against the horrid colds' and coughs that result from wet feet" she said...
...miles to 16,601 miles. Colonel Green received $2,500,000 cash. The Interstate Commerce Commission had put the road's value "tentatively" at $3,096,851. Colonel Green has not revealed his own valuation. Analysis of the road's capital structure suggests that his illustrious mother made a good...
...Spanish walk. But to Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind of thing. So she fell miserably in love with her husband, although all he had asked, and still asked, of her was that she bear him companionship...