Word: mother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations, Mr. Lapointe would be the first to tell you that he was British. The people of English-speaking Canada do not doubt that he is British-in that sense. The fact that he has a French name, is of French race, and speaks the French language as his mother tongue, are not barriers in Canada...
...Laying the cornerstone of the new Franklin Roosevelt Library on his mother's estate at Hyde Park, the President announced the library would be completed by next July, that his papers would be available there to authorized persons by July 1941. Since the Library will hold 6,000,000 documents, covering the President's career from the time he was New York State Senator, this looked like an indication that he would not run. No U. S. President has made his correspondence accessible to students and biographers while holding office. But political sleuths pondered: cataloguing the collection will...
...Miss Herrick's, unearthed a long, involved story about Miss Herrick leaving home, getting a job at a big perfumer's, going back home, popping into the friend's house at night and morning in tears. Determinedly, Mrs. Herrick told Justice Wasservogel: "Eileen said, 'Mother, I don't want you to criticize George behind his back; I would like you to criticize him to his face,' and I said, 'Eileen, I would much prefer doing that, and if George will come to my house, I will be very glad...
Princess Wilhelmina's life was mostly work and little play. At ten her father died and she became Queen, with her able mother acting as Regent. On her first appearance on the balcony of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam she is said to have asked: "Mama, do all these people belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution...
...life that Queen W'ilhelmina lived blended well with her shrewd qualities as a ruler. Not a breath of scandal has ever touched her. Few if any bits of gossip ever got through the cold, exclusive circle of Dutch nobility that surrounded the court. She was the good mother, the conscientious leader, the faithful churchgoer. Because of her strong Calvinism, her words came to carry almost a scriptural weight among the nobility of The Hague and Utrecht, the patrician families of Amsterdam, all the older townspeople and villagers in the strongly Protestant North. Nor could it be said that...