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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miriam Hopkins play the lovers. But their ardors are scarcely as exciting as the tart philosophizing of old Mrs. Pesta, a female shard, played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control Raid | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...secured her evidence by pretending, under a false name, to be the mother of three small children, the wife of a drunkard, a woman whose health was endangered by too frequent childbearing. Clinic doctors had examined her and decided her state needed the protection of contraceptives. The doctors were Hannah M. Stone and Elizabeth Pissoort. It was they who were arrested last week, together with their three nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control Raid | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Gracious were the U. S. representatives, victory being the mother of magnanimity. Said their statement: ". . . never questioned the sincerity of Sir Hugo . . . not at all unsympathetic toward his desire . . . insisting upon property right . . . negotiations . . . uniformly pleasant . . . ability. . . integrity . . . greatest respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Able U. S. Men | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only two removes from becoming "Queen Elizabeth"-which title is constantly and teasingly applied to her by Edward of Wales. She would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P'incess Is Three | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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