Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unemployed Britons to Canada. During the five years from 1923-28 some 263,000 have been sent. Too many have turned out n'er-do-wells and won't-works. Today there is a swelling, angry chorus of Canadian protest against what is claimed to be the Mother Country's policy of turning her daughter Dominion into a dumping ground for loafers. It was to patch up the Empire's mother-daughter quarrel that big, likable, keen-witted James Henry ("Jim") Thomas arrived in Ottawa last week from London, where he is Lord Privy Seal, Leader...
...guess you all know I'm still Jim!" Last week the clubbable Minister in Charge of Unemployment soon warmed up Canadians to a personal liking for his breezy, Welsh-Cockney wrays. In his first Canadian press interview, smart Jim Thomas sought to spike the charge that Mother Britain is not playing square with Daughter Canada...
White Collar Son. Significantly in the party of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas last week was their son A. J. Thomas. He met them when they landed from the S.S. Duchess of Athol at Quebec. He is one of the Mother Country's sons who have come over in the past five years to take a job with Daughter Canada. His job is Assistant to the Director of Shop Methods of the Canadian National Railways...
Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
...turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...