Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor me! At Christmas brothers are at the front, sisters in factories, mother is a member of the searchlight crew, father is in the People's Army, grandfather is in home defense, Santa Claus is bombed out and Baby Jesus is evacuated...
...still leading her pleasantly active life among the headhunters. In Leigh Hall, Cricklade, Wilts, Miss Graham-Bower's mother commented on her daughter's fighting blood, added proudly: "An extraordinary girl; she never would sit still...
...draft dodger, now at liberty after serving almost five years of a seven and a half year sentence in Army prisons, and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 37, applicant for U.S. citizenship: their seventh child, a son; one week after the death of Bergdol's 83-year-old mother, Emma Bergdoll; in West Chester...
Died. Otelia Augspurger Compton, 85, "American Mother for 1939," widow of Elias Compton, dean of the College of Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
...like a Greek god and glittered with "inner fires." He owned a magnificent estate jampacked with foxhounds and liveried "darkies . . . with mirthful grins." Hugo was loved by "the most beautiful girl in ... all the South." But he was afraid that he was a bastard. He could not ask his mother about it because his father had murdered her years ago. So Hugo was ashamed to marry...