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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mother of fivE . , . Mother of five ," your Sports Editor repeats that three times before the name of Mrs. George W. Wightman, and seems to think it a great feat that she has been five times a mother yet has won three tennis titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Chas. T. [Mother of six]) Aiken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...brakes hissed, and as the train stopped a young man stepped off, greeted his mother on the platform with a laugh, told her, still laughing and grimacing, how the Indians had shot down his wife and mother-in-law, and mangled their three children with dumdum bullets. "Ha! Hahaha!" cried the demented man, "Hahahahaha. . . ." The dead included all but three of the armed train guards. Some 50 adults and children were murdered; but it was established that the Indians did not set fire to the train until all non-wounded passengers had climbed out. As the cars blazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Atrocity | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Health of Mother and Child

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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