Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Ties. In Peiping, China, 1) Wang Leihsiang had her mother arrested as an opium smoker; 2) her sister accused her brother's wife of adultery; 3) the brother's wife killed the two sisters with an ax, hanged herself, left a note explaining to her husband that she had planned on killing...
Fast work had prevented a possible Red putsch in Athens, but the new state of affairs in the north was something else again. The Soviet puppets, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia were expected to "recognize" Vafiades at any moment. Cautious Mother Russia might do so later, if things went well. For a "cold war" the international conflict was giving off a lot of heat...
Died. Martha Hillard MacLeish, 91, retired educator, welfare-work leader, mother of Poet Archibald MacLeish, head of Rockford (Ill.) College (1884-88) when women's colleges were still a novelty; in Glencoe...
...shall at least have John all to ourselves," said old father Ruskin happily. "I would rather be your Mother," old Mts. Ruskin assured her son, "than the mother of the greatest of Kings or Heroes past or present." "They have got him now," said Painter Millais (who married Effie a year later) , "and will keep on either side of him like the two outside horses in the Edinburgh omnibuses, who always suggested . . . that they were taking [the middle horse] to the station-house-let us hope that this may not be realized in the case of poor...
Ruskin died insane in 1900. Effie had died two years before, happy mother of eight children...