Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, but gypsy legend claims that when Mary Magdalene, Mary Salome and Mary the mother of James the Less fled persecution in Judea and crossed the Mediterranean, a gypsy called Sarah received them and became their servant...
...Home to Mother. Dr. Wong is not physically impressive: he is under 5 ft. and weighs 90-odd pounds, and his homely face is scarred from an auto smashup 14 years ago. He has no political following: though a member of the Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...
...name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following day he flew home to Chungking for a visit with his aged mother...
Henry L. Mencken was very nearly a dead issue, in Baltimore. The daughter of his colored cook fatally stabbed her mother with-an ice pick and then set out for the Menckens'. Presently Mencken's brother August looked out his window and saw the daughter approaching, a bottle in each hand; he talked to her through,, the window, at the same time dialed police, who came on the double, nabbed her, and packed her off to a sanitarium. Mencken slept through everything...
...Jose, Calif., British-born Lilian Augusta Fontaine, mother of Actresses Olivia de Havilland (who became a citizen in 1941) and Joan Fontaine (who became a citizen in 1943), was awarded citizenship after 29 years...