Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good collection" of Mother Goose...
Mounted gunmen hired by Ferocious Fimbres recently located the Apaches?a small tribe said to number only 25?on an almost inaccessible fortified plateau, high in the Sierra Madre Mountains. "This time they cannot escape!" Fimbres exulted last week. "Blood of God's Mother, I have waited three years ! It may take till spring to starve them out, but we shall kill all who are up there except one little boy?...
...dispute between the Modernists and Fundamentalists of pedagogy over the merits and morals of the jingles which Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Vergoose of17th Century Boston sang to her large brood of moppets and which her son-in-law, one T. Fleet, published in 1719 as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children...
...will teach children to steal pigs. They call "Little Jack Homer" bad-mannered. They say that "The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon" is cruelly improbable. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., herself a child prodigy (she "used a typewriter" at the age of three), has tried to attack Mother Goose constructively by promulgating informative jingles, rhymes that "represent life" (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925). Example...
Teachers' College at Columbia University is the largest training station for schoolteachers in the land (2,799 degrees and diplomas awarded in 1927-28). Last week the Mother Goose dispute cropped up there. Miss Marie Duggan of the Bureau of Educational Service announced...