Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trotted through Bucharest as the advance guard of a procession. Came the Prefect of Police, then the Marshal of the Court. Came finally a State carriage, in which sat the young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced and abdicated his rights (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), and proceeded to Paris, where he now lives...
...never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country. Thus King Ferdinand, although never a dynamic or very statesmanly monarch, was assisted to a great reward by his integrity of purpose, by his magnetic consort, "The Mother-in-Law of the Balkans," and by the powerful dynasty of Jon Bratiano which now overshadows royalty itself in Rumania...
Certain detectives sent to "take Jesse James dead or alive" adopted the questionable expedient of tossing a bomb into his house which killed his youngest brother and tore off the arm of his mother, this at a time when Jesse was some miles distant. Thereafter Jesse considered that society had defied him to do his worst and he did it. He was shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward...
...complete deliverance lies through an act for normal men the most unthinkable. When his young daughter, April, comes to Point Sur to fetch him for her mother, he forces her, passing through incest to the full exaltation of godhood...
...unreels the story of an Ohio boy whose domineering mother married him off young and innocent to a pallid missionary, a virgin before the Lord, called Naomi. In an Africa which Mr. Bromfield must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...