Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressionable clerk ever died to honor a less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
...23rd Street, Coney Island, at seven o'clock one evening, surly breakers crowded over Morris Ravmitzky, 17. The undertow pressed its oily brine down into his lungs, dragged his body out for the depth crabs to fumble over. For three days and nights the boy's mother paced the beach, heedless of sprawling crowds that bathed, babbled and ebbed home to rest. She watched the grim ocean, lamenting. At seven o'clock of the third evening, Mrs. Ravmitzky stood at the foot of 21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel stave or water-logged tomato...
Benny Leonard, onetime undefeated lightweight champion of the world: "Of course, I don't fight any more. I've made lots of money and own real estate. Besides, I promised my mother I would never enter the ring again. And in the Sept. 4 issue of Collier's, I okayed an interview telling all about my most thrilling fights and how I finally came through all 200 of them with my eyes and ears normal. But I was lucky and skillful and don't think much of boxing as a manly art. Said I, 'Unless...
...What was the mother country of Panama...
...Mother of Continents...