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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error, Captain Coli has no wife. (His mother lives in Marseilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...condemned to die during the week of August 10. To the child whom he has seen only on her visits to his cell he said: "It was the greatest treasure and sweetness in my struggling life that I could have lived with you and your brother, Dante, and your mother on a neat little farm and learn all your sincere words and tender affection. The same I have wished and love to see for other poor girls and their brothers happy with the mother and father as I dreamed for us-but it was not so and the nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Woe is Me | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...were titillated last week by an announcement that "Mejuffrouw* Louise Van Buren" will began to study at Leyden next September, majoring in Dutch law and literature. Mejuffrow Louise, 18, is not unknown or unbeloved in Leyden. Her great ancestor, William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will be known at Leyden simply as "Mejuffrouw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Royal University Girl | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...pier, after 18 hr. 47 min. of ceaseless fighting, to hear the cheers of spectators, see the flare of skyrockets and fireworks in his honor, to receive the prize of $5,000 offered by the American Legion of Lake George, with part of which he intends to provide his mother a much-needed summer vacation near the scene of his triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fresh Water Marathon | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

UNKIND STAR-Nancy Hoyt- Knopf ($2.50). Two girls were born on the same night, under the same star, to life on erratic earth. Lilias Rabenstein was the daughter of an ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiz, Bang, Sputter | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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