Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a gay, humorous girl who dislikes big social functions, wears flat heels, likes to mimic people. During the war's early years she had studied commercial art in New York, where her mother, Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma and Denmark, clerked in a swank hat shop...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...
Things were seasonably merry on the Christmas-tree farm at Hyde Park. Elliott Roosevelt, who owns the business with his mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...
...star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh...
...only became more real, more human and more alive each time. Before he died, Bellini's faith and art had combined to create Madonnas like the one here reproduced, which were credibly like the Virgin the Wise Men found at Bethlehem: a living woman, and the Mother of God. The compassion in that Madonna's look, and in her hands which both protect and present the Child, touches eternity...