Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long after little Hollis and his mother went to bed, as the ship's bell struck midnight, they were all but thrown from their berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...
Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
Founding. On Aug. 5, 1737, the first edition of the weekly Gazette "containing the freshest advices, both Foreign and Domestick," was printed by William Parkes whose daughter Eleanor later became the mother-in-law of Statesman Patrick Henry. Mr. Parkes described himself as a "Printer, by whom subscriptions are taken . . . at 15 shillings per Ann. And Book Binding is done reasonably, in the best manner." The issues, 7½ in. wide by 12½ in. long, contained but four pages (one sheet folded like letter paper), with two columns on each page...
Prohibition was a subject worthy of the public prints. "The Act of Parliament to prevent the selling of Gin, being to take place on Tomorrow, Mother Gin lay in State yesterday, at a Distiller's Shop in Swallow Street near St. James's Church; but to prevent the ill Consequences of such a Funeral, a neighboring Justice took the Undertaker, his Men, and all the Mourners into Custody...
Selina Martin, 21, was a tall, angular blonde. She worked for Julies Freres, Couturiers-the brothers Raphael and Paul. Raphael, a dress designer himself, appreciated her original work, therefore advanced her salary after her mother's death left her living alone. Then one day he noticed something in her work on a dress in three shades of red-"I mean the clever child is growing up-she has ideas that are not all dreams. She is getting down to earth. I wonder...