Word: mother
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...published a book of verse, Mother Goose in Esperanto, which some people, including her mother, thought was a wonder...
...half a volume of quotations from Miss Stoner were printed in metropolitan dailies last week. Among them: "I've got myself into the worst mess of all the messes I've been in. I've lost Bainbridge Colby,* who was my mental mate, given pain to Mother Stoner and must go to court to fight for a bracelet which was given to me. . . . It's taking a long time to live down the child-wonder business and how sick I am of hearing that word...
...Mother Stoner, too, organizer of the World League for the Promotion of Genius,! had something to say: "Poor girl! It is a terrible thing to be in the public eye as a so-called prodigy. No one who has any sense wants to be appearing in the papers...
...Herbert Clark Hoover was born a Quaker, his mother being zealous in the communities of Friends in Iowa. Mrs. Hoover was an Episcopalian, but adopted her husband's faith after their marriage. Hoover's reticence before the public was said to be due largely to his Quaker upbringing...
...Brooklyn, one Mrs. George Sayyah testified that her husband had dragged her by the hair and had compelled her to kiss his mother's feet. "What's this?" asked the judge. George Sayyah sullenly gave no reply. Shocked, furious, the magistrate said: "No more of this foot-kissing...