Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time off to dedicate a new children's wing of the Georgetown University Hospital. There he dropped in on three-year-old Sharon Meenehan, the victim of an automobile accident. Sharon, who had both legs in casts held straight up by overhead pulleys, was disappointed. She thought her mother had told her that "a present" was coming, not a "President." Next day, Harry Truman sent her a Mother Goose book. He wrote on the flyleaf: "Here's the present you thought you were getting. Get well in a hurry...
There were only six survivors. One hundred and sixty-five fishermen were lost. The whole coast mourned them, but the greatest sorrow was in the village of Matosinhos, nearly all of whose men were drowned. The Rola family lost four men, who between them left 21 children. Old Mother Cunha sat rocking back & forth: "Belmiro, Chico, my beloved ones, come back to me." In a corner, silent and white-faced, sat Chico's bride of five months...
Both Wellesley and Radcliffe students jumped to the defense of their Alma Maters last night, after reading the recent claim of author Philip Wylio that "a college education will probably make a girl less happy, more foolish, not very knowledgeable, and a total failure as a mother...
Thomas Haller Cooper was a different kind of grotesque. His father was an English photographer; his mother was German. Somehow his mother had instilled in him a love for Germany. "It cannot be put down in black and white how she wove the spell about him. . . . The secret does not lie in the promise of conquest. That secret is a lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban...
...treason. Says Author West: "The children "who go from their homes with strangers because they have been given cakes and sweets are unsustained by pride when the unkindness falls on them. They know well that they have done wrong. A person should be loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead...