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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tonsillitis (Sister & Buzzie Dall, 1932), sinus (Franklin Jr. 1936) or other ill hap. On hand will be still-ailing Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, and his bright-eyed, motherless daughter, Diana, 7. And last to open her stocking-by custom-will be the President's 85-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, still the belle of the Hudson Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly. She insisted that he return to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Trees | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed it in bits to his passengers. Jimmy's story reached Timbuctu and Berlin as well, putting the Propaganda Ministry's nose completely out of joint. In Washington, Jimmy's mother heard his voice-for the first time in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Pontotoc, Miss., two-and-a-half-year-old Keith McKnight fell into an empty 54-foot well. When his mother shouted: "Are you down there, Keith?", Keith replied: "Yes, and I'm dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Heel Editor is the first of four volumes in which the 77-year-old Ambassador to Mexico proposes to tell the whole of his long life. Taking him through his 30th year, it concerns itself somewhat with his boyhood (his mother's War memories, camp meetings, small-town life, two decades of Reconstruction), chiefly, and in great factual detail, with his young manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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