Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Randle, my Mother...
...Alaskan Mother...
...fallen women on the street, but explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took the form of such rescue efforts...
...spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them up. At last policemen charged the women, dragged them to a safe distance, held them ungently until the rock...
...throw. And James James said, "Let me explain myself!" and the Tutor, without thinking, said that he didn't believe that J. J. could be explained, and the last that was seen of the pair, they were removing breakables from the vicinity, and singing, "Just Before the Battle, Mother." Further adventures of J. J. M. M. W. G. D. may be followed in "I Confess," or try your own broker...