Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named George Trevor Wykeham Gauntlett, a half-English, half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention and the Washington disarmament talks. They were interned at Karuizawa during...
...critics wrestled with themselves, and turned out estimates ranging from "considerable promise" to "at best, a good amateur." Most agreed that she had considerable courage. Margaret stayed close to her phone. Her mother called from the White House; her father from Florida. "Baby," said Harry Truman, "I'm glad it's over...
...House of Commons looked like a Sunday school class on Mother's Day. Every Liberal sported a red rose in his lapel. On the front-row desk of Prime Minister Mackenzie King stood a huge white vase filled with red roses. Thus was the P.M., recovered from a heavy cold, welcomed back to the House after three weeks' absence...
...amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed at his photograph," Yogananda recalls, "and saw there a blinding light. . . . My nausea and other uncontrollable symptoms disappeared; I was well...
...Katharine Hepburn). At a meeting in Denver-so discreetly handled, for the censors' sake, that it all seems to have been managed by pollination-Mr. Douglas gets Miss Hepburn with child. After the child grows up to be Robert Walker and has paid the inevitable price for his mother's sin (i.e., he gets killed off), the picture is quickly put out of its misery...