Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolution, social, political, and industrial, was the picture of his native country as described by Dhan Gopal Mukerji to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Mukerji is the author of several books depicting Indian life and philosophy, outstanding of which are "Caste and Outcast" and "A Son of Mother India Answers...
...handsome, white stone Palace at Belgrade came, immediately following the event, Prime Minister Vukitchevitch and Minister of Justice Subotitch who solemnly verified the occurrence and sex of the royal infant. Not present was Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, mother of Marie of Jugoslavia, who visited Belgrade briefly, three weeks ago, then returned to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. Court gossips again recalled the increasing impatience with which Marie of Jugoslavia has long received her mother's well meant but garrulous councils upon every phase of a queen's private and public life...
...Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...
...Divine Woman is another vehicle for the extraordinarily tempestuous passions of Actress Greta Garbo. She plays the part of Marianne, a little country girl who completely eclipses a courtesan mother by becoming the greatest actress in Paris. But even when bouquets, floral and financial, come raining down around her, she cannot forget Lucien, who, because he deserted his regiment to be near Marianne, has been put into prison...
...hips. These young people kiss each other a good deal. For these things they would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them. She had to, because all the mothers and fathers went out drinking and necking even more earnestly. There lies the moral. Nice old father and mother were out getting drunk, playing naughty and picking up a nasty collection of nervous breakdowns. This is a play that no drinking mother should miss...