Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Free, he went home to his 79-year-old mother, took a two-story stucco building and filled its walls with windows. "Some of us have not seen much sunshine," he said. Then he took in men he had known -a pardoned murderer, an embezzler, a forger-and let them work on at the trade they had learned in prison, rigging ship models, turning radio cabinets, joining chairs...
Smack! With childish fervor, His Majesty bestowed a kiss of welcome. He now waited for it to be returned. He continued to wait. Prince Peter, bonny and button-round eyed, gazed vaguely around, oblivious of what was required, but beginning to be slightly concerned about his mother...
...lady manages to get to jail, there overhears the details of a conspiracy to drag the young and charming judge who sentenced her into a badger-game.* She goes to his room, prevents compromise, reveals the plot, wins love. A divorce is prevented, her adventures having kept father and mother together...
...small plane taxied right up to the fence of the home at Bundaberg, Australia, last week. Flyer Harold (Bert) Hinkler stepped stiffly out and kissed his mother waiting there. That was the goal of his record-breaking solo flight from Croyden, England, to the Antipodes...
While the huzzahing crowds waited and as he gulped the warm meal his mother had set for him, he told her what he had superlatively done: 1) the longest one-man continuous flight; 2) the longest flight in a light airplane; 3) the fastest journey from England to India; 4) the fastest journey from England to Australia; 5) the first non-stop flight from England to Rome...