Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...define the "life" of a mother? I only know that mischief and trouble dissolve when a muddy wild Indian of two-and-a-half comes in the kitchen door, wraps his arms around my legs, looks at me and says, in unconscious imitation of his daddy: "Hya, honey...
Cast Anchor! At the age of 14, Madame Guillet treated her first patient. It was her mother's seamstress, an anemic, timid and depressed creature. "After three or four readings of vigorous poetry," Madame Guillet said, "she became so cocky I could hardly bear her company...
...power in sovereign India was the "people." It was well known in Travancore, said Sir C.P., that all powers are derived from the Hindu deity Sri Padmanabha. (Handsome Sir C.P. owes his position in matriarchal Travancore partly to his great administrative ability, partly to the Maharaja's mother, the Dowager Maharani...
...Anti-Semitism: "People forget, or rather do not want to know, that our God made man is a Jew . . . that His Mother is a Jewess, the flower of the Jewish Race; that all His Ancestors were Jews; that the Apostles were Jews, as well as all the Prophets; finally that our holy Liturgy is entirely drawn from Jewish books. . . . Anti-Semitism ... is the most horrible blow yet suffered by Our Lord in His ever continuous Passion...
...since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...