Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young dog's eyes. Outside, in the lounge, is a group of German war brides who will take off in two hours for America. Among them is a mother with a baby in her arms. She sits and dreams with a slight half-smile on her lips, her eyes on the plane outside, one hand caressing the baby's downy hair...
...Charles Rock Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons. Admitted, he marched stiffly down the aisle, bowing to the Speaker as he approached the dais to announce that the Senate awaited the presence of the Commons. In the form set centuries ago by the Mother of Parliaments, the M.P.s trooped into the Senate Chamber. There, black-robed Mr. Justice Kerwin, filling the role of the vacationing Governor General, gave royal assent to 300 bills. He thereupon declared the third session of the 20th Parliament of Canada prorogued...
Once a year, Portinari returns to the village of Brodowsky, where his father & mother still live. There he stays for several months, storing his mind with fresh images of the poverty-worn Negro and mulatto coffeeworkers among the red-brown hills. When he came back from Paris last December, he started a series of sad pictures and a series of happy pictures. "But now I don't feel so much like painting happy pictures. I feel more like sad pictures...
...four children-all of whom soon died. At 23, she joined the revivalist following of two emotional Quakers, James and Jane Wardley. The Wardleys became convinced that Ann was nothing less than the second incarnation of Christ. Later, it was revealed to Ann in a vision that she was Mother Ann-Ann, the Word. She had attained spiritual peace at last; she devoted the rest of her life to showing others the way. One of the first to whom she showed it was husband Abraham, with whom she refused to have any further marital relations...
...guided by another revelation, Mother Ann and eight disciples came to America. Their first settlement was a swampy tract of land near Albany, N.Y., which the little band of English artisans laboriously cleared and drained. There they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them...