Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon in Hot Springs, the President inquired for Badger Clark, author of one of his favorite poems, "The Cowboy's Prayer."- The luncheon hosts were embarrassed, not having invited Poet Clark, whom they at once sent for, whose eloquent mother later gave the President a U. S. flag, equipped with staff...
...pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
...opened. Despite its elaborate concealment, the magnificent array around it and the obvious fact that thieves had never penetrated to it, the sarcophagus was empty. Cheops, having had one experience with thieves -at Dahshur, had evidently carried his ruse of concealment one step beyond extreme caution and hidden his mother's mummy still elsewhere...
...Reisner suspected it was the tomb of Queen Hetep-Heres, mother of Cheops, and many months of meticulous examination and removal of priceless debris proved him right. It was the first intact tomb ever found of a person of the Fourth Dynasty...
Umbrella. In Dayton, "home of flying," the eyes of children looked intently upward. Thirty-five feet above them they saw Arthur Kraft with his mother's silk umbrella. He jumped; the umbrella turned inside out. The doctor examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...