Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father was a Russian Jew who loved this country because it gave him a chance to live like a decent human" being. I was blessed with a mother who knew no boundaries of race or religion, especially when other people were in trouble. My grammar-school and high-school teachers taught me to love good sportsmanship. They taught what they were, even more than what they knew...
...read the article about not having to wipe dishes in TIME, June 19. [Doctors recommend rinsing in 170° water.] I am eleven years old and have to dry dishes. The story didn't work on my mother so I still have to wipe them. I wish you would write something a little more stern...
...mother of Thomas E. Jr., 11, and John Martin, 8. Her hair is grey at the temples but she looks younger than her 41 years. When Tom Dewey makes a speech she sits quietly with folded hands, rarely takes her eyes from his face. She said last week: "I have no intention of doing any radio work, of making any speeches or writing for any newspapers...
...Hutton, about to assume her six-months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
...slaves. Her favorite pupil among the King's wives, Son Klim, signed her letters, "Harriet Beecher Stowe Son Klim." Once Anna found the wives bidding for an 18-months-old white baby girl, the child of a native woman and an English sailor. Anna bought both mother and child for $72 to save them from slavery...