Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Long Island's $2,000,000 Bayside High School, Prince Nawaf, wearing flowing robes and white desert headdress and followed by an interpreter, stepped out of a T.W.A. limousine. Principal George J. Crane pumped his hand and beamed: "If my mother could only see me now, Prince." As photographers moved in for pictures, the principal suggested: "Smile, Prince...
...would swing down to Sapulpa, Okla. to see his in-laws; up to Kansas City for a night's rest; out to Salt Lake City for the Governors' Conference; back to Owosso, Mich, to see his mother and to show his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to Tom Jr. He explained: "We've always wanted the boys to know the West as soon as they were old enough to appreciate...
...routine efficiency of a precision instrument, Capital Airlines' Flight 410 took off from the Pittsburgh airport and headed east for Washington toward a soupy sea of cloud. It was 5:20 p.m. (E.S.T.). Aboard the DC-4 were 50 people -the crew of three, a baby and its mother, a honeymoon couple, Government and Red Cross officials, businessmen, a schoolgirl on a holiday...
...curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick bob before the Queen Mother. Tish had to content herself with lesser folk. "The men," she said later, "were the most attractive bunch I've ever seen, but then I think Englishmen are terrific anyway...
John Gielgud, who has played Hamlet 1,000-odd times, decided at 43 that he is now too old to act the role any more. He reasoned: "If you take 43 as Hamlet's own age, that makes his mother 60 at the very least. . . and no woman of 60 in her right mind is going to carry on around Elsinore the way that Gertrude of Denmark does...