Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe of Kansas. She was the great-grandmother of Senator Charles Curtis; she married a swashbuckling young Frenchman named Conville, who had hammered down his stakes near St. Louis. Their daughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader-from which wedlock sprang the mother of the Senator. Captain A.O. Curtis, his father, had come to Kansas from New Hampshire...
...Charles' mother died early and he went to live with his grandmother on the Kaw reservation. There he frolicked with young redskins, taught tricks to puppies, rode ponies. At 8, he was a jockey in a state fair; Kansans cheered lustily for " ol' Captain Curtis' boy." There is a story that he was a Paul Revere at the age of 10; he rode 60 miles to Topeka to bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them...
...true that I am a spiritualist. (Holding up a silver cross) I claim to be in communication with Lord Northcliffe, as I am with my father and mother. They have 'gone over,' but they are looking after...
Last week Fuzzy Wuzzy (Osman Digna, called "The Ugly") died in Wadi Haifa, Egypt. He was 90. He had spent 22 years in prison, more than 20 years slave trading, some 25 years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...