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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quickly the mother said under her breath: "Will explain that later," while the father, a wise and scholarly dominee of the Dutch Reformed Church, replied with equal quietness and promptness: "An unmarried wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...embarrassed. I wondered a little, that my friend should ask such an obvious question, being more of a reader than she was. No doubt father and mother both explained afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...porch of a hostelry in Old Faithful, there was parked an old baggage-truck. When Mrs. Coolidge saw this early one morning, she beamed. To secret service men, to John Coolidge she expressed a desire to be wheeled about in the rude conveyance. Laughing, John Coolidge trundled his mother here and there until the diversion grew wearisome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Coolidge Week | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...active woman player has been Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, mother of the brilliant Tommy Hitchcock, No. 2 on the U. S. team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Polo Begins | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Mooseheart, Ill., is a home for orphaned Moose boys and girls. They are taught trades, educated through high school, afforded college scholarships. Director General Davis suggested that Moose children may be admitted in future at the death of their mother only, provided their fathers pay tuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moose Pap | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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