Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When Mr. Insull later organized a Middle West Utilities Company, Mr. West invested in that too. So did his wife and mother. All prospered...
Rumanians learned last week who is the very best mother in all Rumania. They were told by the Dowager Queen Marie-herself the mother of three Rumanian princesses, Princess Ileana, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. So modest is Dowager Queen Marie that she did not proclaim herself "Best Mother" as some catty enemies thought she would. Instead a painstaking search has been carried on by Her Majesty for some weeks, with a view to bestowing a large gold medal on Rumania's very best mother. Last week the 32-year-old mother...
Naturally defeated Rumanian mothers were quick to scrutinize the winner. Mothers of many noted that she is the mother of one. Mothers with good eyesight were sorry that hers is poor. Mothers who have kept the love of their husbands sympathized with the winner because she has been deserted, many times deceived and is now divorced. Mothers who have never had one elder brother banished from his native land, and another killed by a monkey bite recalled that the Gold Medal Mother has endured these blows of Fate...
...course only one woman fits this description. She is Dowager Queen Marie's daughter-in-law, Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of Boy King Mihai of Rumania...
...take on his unwilling way to West Point. Suspecting that fellow cadets would guy him for initials H. U. G., he plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made short shrift by changing his signature to U. S. Grant...