Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 50 years woman has finally had courage to descend from her pedestal and to go to work herself in those spheres for which she had formerly been deemed too delicate . . . She had not considered that her so-called most appropriate work-the task of being a mother and raising a family-was exactly the task . . . that demands the most from body and soul...
...task of being mother to a large family was precisely what Juliana faced. Juliana had spent many years being a housewife and a mother as well as a princess, and (when help was short) she did her own huiswerk. The new Queen faced the huiswerk of a nation. No Dutchman doubted that she was equal...
When Juliana told her mother about her achievement, the Queen said: "Don't get excited. They gave you the prize because you are the Princess." Juliana brought this story back to Leiden, whereupon the student jury wrote a respectful letter to Her Majesty, assuring her that the poem had won on its own merits...
...Spirit of Bryn Mawr. Juliana is far more sociable than her formidable mother. "Wilhelmina never starts a conversation," say friends, "and Juliana never finishes...
...Touch of Greatness. Juliana on one occasion achieved a touch of greatness. In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, she went to Canada while her mother and husband remained in Britain. For the first time in her life she was on her own. She went to a microphone and spoke to the Canadian and American people, a simple woman, a mother, and unmistakably a princess. "Please do not regard me as too much of a stranger," she said. "But you may not know very much about me, so I had better tell you who I am. My name is Juliana ..." Then...