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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Callipygian Captain | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Guinan clubs. The current one is the Texas Guinan's Club Intime in 54th Street. Amiable, witty, sentimental, blonde, mercenary, she keeps her age a secret, crosses herself when she sees a policeman, has millionaires thrown out of her club if they get rowdy, lives quietly with her mother in Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best shot: Sonny Boy in the clothes-hamper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. She has been an active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children-seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons-Harold, a polo-playing director of Chrysler Corp., Dayton Steel Racquet Co., Sikorsky Aviation Co. and many another corporation, and Nelson ("Bud"), Yale football captain in 1915, now president of N. S. Talbott Co.* All nine children with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Talbott's Gesture | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Died. Helen Resch, 20, Viennese actress, mistress of Prince Ernest Windischgraetz, 24, grandson of the late Emperor Franz Josef; by suicide (gas), in Vienna. The Prince's engagement to an opulent aristocrat had just been announced. Miss Resch also asphyxiated her baby, her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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