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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially underpanties. As if vulgarity were not enough, the playwright sought to disentangle the plot with a series of dull and tiresome explanations. It lasted four days. Then a patrol wagon called for Mr. Grew and his assistants. Actress Alice Weaver, chief of the innocents, collapsed, screamed for her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Rumor. King Alfonso XIII, having piously buried his mother (TIME, Feb. 18), turned to affairs of state, last week, with such vigor that news leaks through the Spanish censorship envisioning His Majesty as demanding the resignation of General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, who has now dictated for five and a half years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Rumor v. Fact | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Half distracted by these thoughts Signora Anna prayed, fervently, wildly, to the Mother of God. Sometimes such prayers are efficacious. Last week Signora Anna's midwife was hastily called in a second time, detected an infant she had not previously noticed, assisted the belated bambino into the world, and triumphantly announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miraculous Bambino? | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...yourself from the penalty which it has brought upon you. "Yours very sincerely, "P. Fumasoni-Biondi." Attorney Daignault became an outcast from his Church. To get reinstated he had humbly, sincerely to repent. Last week in Rhode Island they whispered that Dainault had at last repented, begged forgiveness, that Mother Church would once more take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Penitent Daignault | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Introspection is the mother of image-sorting. So long as one is in a state of interior solitude, one can introspect almost anywhere-walking along a crowded street, in a sunny meadow, in a room where typewriters are banging, in a room alone with a fire, in bed in the morning or just before falling asleep at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking, An Art | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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