Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge went to Northampton, Mass., to visit her mother, Mrs. Goodhue, sicker than ever in Dickinson Hospital...
...opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very strong! And he was a great healer. Two, three or four times he saved the life of the Tsarevitch-the little son Alexis. So his mother, my sister-in-law, the Tsaritsa ordered Rasputin to come often to attend the Tsarevitch...
...wait was not long, and in the midst of mourning an insignificant German princess became empress of all the Russias. Her mother-in-law, Marie Feo-dorovna, beloved of the people, was so steeped in sorrow that she paid very little attention to Alexandra; but the various grand duchesses took pains to make her difficult position yet more difficult with their resentful jealousies. Bashful, awkward, guileless, Alix, now Alexandra Feo-dorovna, disdained the gentle art of flummery, and was only took frank in her disapproval of Russian frivolity...
Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
When they had gathered their startled wits, the shepherds went to Bethlehem and found the Babe in the manger, and impulsively adored him. But his mother wondered that strangers should come and thus adore her child; and she adored him herself, and was more sure of his goodness.-(St. Luke...