Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little...
...first lesson may be to give up things he has hold of which may hurt him. Safety pins are convenient for the first lessons. Every time the mother changes the baby's diapers, she can take time to place one of the pins in the child's hand for a moment. Then she can say to him, 'Give it to me,' at the same time taking it away again. Then she should praise him in a gay and lively manner and romp with him a little, so that he will have a pleasant association with...
...world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
...MOTHER AND SON-Remain Holland (translated by Van Wyck Brooks)- Henry Holt ($2.50). "They came there, they set fire to everything. . . . We ran away. Whenever we stopped, we could hear their feet galloping behind us. They were coming like a steam roller, the whole sky was black with them. Like a hail storm coming up. . . . We ran and ran." To this, the way people scampered away from the terror of the German invasion, Author Rolland, pacifist, finds a parallel in the way people let themselves be driven by the hail storm of their emotions...
...opera, novels, plays, screeds on pacifism. In 1914 he appeared in Geneva to work for the Red Cross, to enrage "La Patrie" by excoriating "La guerre" in open letters to other pacifists. Still, at 61, a flayer of warriors, he includes a savage portrait of "Tiger" Clemenceau in Mother...