Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was nothing in TIME'S language that a gentlewoman could find worthy, neither sympathy for the mother and father swans over-powered by Englishmen whom I do not hesitate to call callous brutes, nor any tenderness for the little frightened swanlets as their bills were nicked with sharp knives! Do you approve of such savagery to animals? If you do you ought to have your own noses nicked...
...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
...surely unnecessary for you to distinguish between a mother and a father swan by such terms as "pen"' and "cob" . . . and was it necessary for you to call the swanlets by such an ugly word as "cygnets...
...shacks lives the Widow Kolesar, a dumpy little Slav who chars for her living and fills her four children's bellies with vegetables from their scrawny "garden." Her "old man" was killed while working on the railroad. Nearby lives the Klementovich family. Mother Klementovich is virtually a widow; her "old man" is serving a two-year term in jail for beating her. She works in the factory, tends chickens, takes in a boarder. There are four little Klementoviches...
...Then I started running toward home. On the way I met Helen's mother. I told her 'Hurry up, Helen's shot.' So she and Helen's grandmother went back with me and picked up Helen and Johnny on their backs and carried them home. Then I went and told my mother...