Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Magruder: "My mother was a Kildare; my father was a Magruder; and my hair is red. I'll be heard if I have to take it to the President himself...
While she was visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the mother of Charles Nungesser, and dressmakers (her second day in Paris), the native press speculated about heart interest. Interviewed with Mr. Haldeman, she was asked why she did not bring her husband with her. Said she: "Because he weighs too much gasoline...
Birthday. At Sinaia, some 75 miles north of Bucharest, capital of Rumania, in the Royal Palace, Michael I, World's youngest king, celebrated the sixth anniversary of his birth. All year long he has been a good boy. His mother, Princess Helene, wife of the errant and onetime Crown Prince Carol, said so. And so blue-eyed "Mickey," as he is called within the court, received lots of presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne-that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else...
...addition M. Manoilescu carried a letter from the prince to his mother, Dowager Queen Marie, who was reported to have been greatly angered when informed that M. Bratino had dared to open it. Also, he was alleged to have with him a photostat of a document signed by his late father, King Ferdinand, in which it is said that the monarch advised M. Bratiano to recall Carol if he showed signs of being worthy of trust...
...lady in Study of My Mother is sitting in an armchair by a window through whose heavy curtains only enough light soaks to touch the hands that lean against her steep lap. Her severe face makes her thought a secret. Maybe she is thinking about God, maybe she is wondering what time it is. But her eyes are looking at something through the dark room beyond its darkness...