Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grandpapa just sat and sat in the sunshine, or strolled down by the lake talking with Papa. Mother said that there wouldn't be any special sweet cakes or songs or funny games, as at most Birthday Parties. There wasn't even room to celebrate, here at Shorfheide, the tiny hunting lodge where they were staying...
...Lipmans migrated about Russia. The father carried the Russian forenames Michael Gregory. The mother was Ida Birkhahn. Charles Bernard was born at Moscow (1883). His older brother Jacob Goodale was born at Friedrichstadt...
...Endowed with $12,500,000 by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of Publisher Edward William Bok, in memory of her mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
...court the virginal teaser appears as a voluntary witness, convinces the magistrate that she was the cause of the fight and tells the crowded courtroom (which includes her mother) that she is a lady of joy. The magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James...
...this, of course, may be on the wrong track. Conceivably, John Harvard's mother and Shakespere may have been unacquainted neighbors. But the peculiar circumstances are certainly inviting of speculation, especially to those who like to see striking relationships among great men. In any event, however. It is pleasing to think that the remembrance of his early association with the imperial poet may have influenced the founder of Harvard College to forward learning in the New World...