Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the state and with the comparative virtues of its neighbor states. . . . Living only 50 miles from the Ohio River, Mr. Zweiger has manifestly never been up to Huntington, W. Va., a city after which Chillicothe might well pattern her ways. Being myself a native of Virginia, the original mother of these states, it grieves me to see much unwarranted mudslinging. . . J.H. HUFFARD Bluefield...
...particular book or magazine will be attacked, but the entire field will be parodied. The Fairy Tales of the Grimm brothers and those of Hans Christian Anderson form the background, but besides these the Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Fairy books, Mother Goose, Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, and the children's poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Whitcomb Riley Eugene Field and W. C. Gilbert will be burlesqued...
...flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
...Holland Goodnight, benevolent dean of men at the University of Wisconsin, lately said: "I believe that resident housemothers in fraternity houses would represent a real improvement in fraternity life. . . ." (TIME, Jan. 3). He-men at other universities laughed largely. Last week a Mrs. K. M. Burrus of Louisville, Ky., mother of Jefferson Burrus, Wisconsin '26, Rhodes-scholar-prom-chairman-football-and-crew luminary, took up her residence in the Sigma Chi house at Madison. "I expect," she said, "to be called upon for any problems the boys might bring to their own mothers...
...tomb of Queen Hetephenes, the mother of Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, has just been opened by Professor G.A. Reisner '89. Professor of Egyptology at the University, who has spent several years making excavations in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids...