Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child sat mouse-still. Possibly he was awed by the nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
...were conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...
Four Sons parades the emotions of Bavarian Mother Bernle who sees three sons goose step to war and death. The fourth and youngest had sailed before the War to the U. S., but he too eventually holds a bayonet. Evil appears in the person of a Prussian, monocled and stooped, mannered and sneering. But Director John Ford sees to it that the boy is safely returned to New York and mother...
...child was seated at his desk, perusing his school books, when the mother entered and walked directly to his seat...