Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lucy Maria Delano Hughes, 92, mother of Charles Frederick Hughes, commander in chief of the United States battle fleet; in Bath...
...discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt to see the mountain but his disguise failed and he was stopped by the Tibetan soldiers, over forty miles from his goal...
Died. Allie B. Clippert, 67, mother-in-law of famed onetime (1901-27) Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (Juvenile Court of Denver); in Detroit...
...sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school...
...last hope is gone. What can I do now?" asked the boy when told of the decision. He moped at home. His father tried to cheer him until calls from patients took him away. The mother tried to comfort her boy but was obliged to leave for an appointment. Alone, he drank a bathroom germicide and died quickly...