Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monkey bite. Her eldest brother, George II of Greece, lives in cheerful banishment from his onetime kingdom, in England. Finally Princess Helen's divorced husband is M. Carol Caramain, the abdicated onetime Crown Prince of Rumania. Had he only been a faithful, proper husband the "Best Mother" would be today no princess but Queen of Rumania. Perhaps the enormity of that privation, which she has cheerfully borne, entitles Princess Helen to her big gold medal...
...Dispatch. Young Joseph Pulitzer was a familiar figure in St. Louis, and somewhat alarming, when he founded the Post-Dispatch. Born in Mako, Hungary, in 1847, of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...
...stepped from the quiet of his sacristy into the flower-decorated chancel at the Little Church Around the Corner* last week, to preside at the unveiling of the fifth stained glass window there in memory of famed actors. This time it was to commemorate John Drew,† whose mother had a pew at the Church before...
...therefore, took seriously the press accounts of the final, frantic cablegram to the German sanitorium which was not read by Jaime Del Rio since just before it came he had died of bloodpoisoning; or the story about the way Mrs. Del Rio's mother told her the news...
...sought comfort by burying her dark head in her mother's bosom. Her entire body was racked with sobs," said a despatch which made cinema fans chuckle...