Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Probably the wife of Zebedee, mother of the apostles John and James (not the author of the Epistle). Not to be confused with Salome, daughter of Herodias, who danced for Tetrarch Herod and asked for the head of John the Baptist. But Dancer Salome could have witnessed the resurrection, since her famed dance took place only 13 months before...
...enough it was, thought Mrs. Irene Smith, Livingston, N. J., mother of seven, to be divorced for adultery. But when her onetime husband, a Milburn, N. J., policeman, refused to support her youngest child because he believed the divorce corespondent, one August Schildknecht, was its father, Mrs. Smith protested...
...imperfect. There are four kinds of human blood, called in medicine Groups I, II, III, IV. Only if a child's blood differs from that of both its parents', is it probable that the man is not the father, and possible that the woman is not the mother. Resemblances cannot be conclusive...
Nonetheless Mrs. Smith last week cried to court for blood tests. They were permitted, and the two men, the mother and the child each gave up a few drops of their blood. It was with quite different emotions that the adults learned that all four individuals had exactly the same type, that the point at issue could have no medical proof...
...Fran was not finished with him yet. Her Teutonic lover got bossy, his mother refused to have a divorcee for daughter-in-law. On the steamer, westward bound. Fran took Sam for granted. But when she blithely flirted with new whippersnappers Sam finally balked, rowed ingloriously, took the return steamer to Edith...