Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Russia clucked to her long-outcast brood in China. Thousands of White Russians, who have been stateless and scattered from Shanghai to Sinkiang since the Red Revolution, were suddenly offered Soviet citizenship. To return to the maternal wing, they had only to apply at the nearest Russian consulate, pay an 11-ruble fee, submit passport photos, answer a few routine questions...
...Mother threw her apron over her head, stuck her fingers in her ears and waited for the thing...
...Communist leader's first wife was a village bride selected for him when he was 14, and subsequently disregarded. No. 2 was a professor's daughter, devoted Yang Kai-hui, mother of Mao's Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation...
Eleanor Jenemann Thompson, 26, wife of the philandering Pittsburgh sergeant who fathered quadruplets (three lived) in wartime England, finally sued him for divorce, opened the way for his marriage to the quadruplets' mother, 24-year-old Norah Carpenter. Grounds: "indignities." Cried ex-Sergeant William H. Thompson: "Hurray!" Mother Norah, still in Derbyshire, promptly inquired about transatlantic plane fares, bubbled: "Boats are too slow...
Fortnight ago San Quentin's doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his San Quentin record. To add to his troubles, the Navy seemed reluctant to sponsor his "invention." The National Research Council was looking into it, but thought the hand did not differ materially from several others of the same type...