Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beautiful Isle" Sirs: When I was a little girl my poor mother many an evening sang me "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," the song which you report Cardinal O'Connell of Boston denounces [TIME, Oct. 17]. She would hold me in her arms and sing the song over and over again. It soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please...
...Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of one of President Woodrow Wilson's favorite comedians, to be presented. President Coolidge told her he hoped she was enjoying Washington. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...time Senator James W. Wadsworth, Sophie Irene Loeb and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, to ask presidential approval of the plan of the Child Welfare Committee of America to better the lot of 18,000 abandoned and mostly illegitimate children of U. S. fathers and Filipino mothers, together with uncountable thousands of all-native orphans. President Coolidge said he thought the Philippine Legislature could pass a bill similar to the "Mother's aid" bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate when he was a Massachusetts Senator...
...Postmaster General and his appointive aids have much to learn. Career men in the Department would understand perfectly what was meant if a report came in saying: "The Oscaloosa graveyard shift pulled three nixies in a Mother Hubbard." But First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett might have to scratch his head over such a message. In any case, there is no reason why U. S. postmasters should not use everyday language. So last week First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett instructed his subordinates to omit "technical" terms from their reports...
...Justification of the name 'Mother of Colleges,' the report states, "is found in the fact that Yale men, either as founders or first presidents, sometimes as both, have made major contributions to the development of colleges and universities which now enroll more than 128,000 students yearly, and on whose faculties are to be found nearly 8,000 teachers. Of the 184 colleges and universities which rank highest among American institutions of higher learning, more than one-third at one time or another, have been presided over by men who have received Yale training...