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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deserves and demands long hours of cerebration. For it is often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs or fails. Indeed, rarely does a mother who has been disappointed in the sex of her first born experience such difficulties in naming her child as the chairman of groups applying for senior dormitories in devising a witty psuedonym...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAUGHTY NOMENCLATURE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Beside the shadowy Spirit bulks the heavier black shape of the great Ford-Stout monoplane in which Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh is presently to fly back to her Detroit schoolroom after the family Christmas. Mother and son stand together for a moment, bidding farewell. Col. Lindbergh shakes hands with Gen. Alvarez who brought to him the good-byes of President Plutarco Elias Calles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Quetzal | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...loving mother to thee was dearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Incendiary Prophet | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...mother would repeat the entire score of 'Orpheus' over and over until dawn appeared in the studio window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Book. "Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. ... I was born under the star of Aphrodite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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