Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barefooted, in white pajamas, Peter and John ran downstairs. Something was wrong. The living-room lights were burning. Their mother, who usually had breakfast ready at this hour, lay unconscious in a pool of blood beneath the piano, her skull fractured, her head battered with 23 wounds...
...puffed at the Government's bill to provide equal education for all. Ignoring the democracy of death in Normandy, crusty Lord Buckmaster said: "Take a boy in an elementary [public] school and whip him for something he has done and all too often he goes whining to his mother. . . . Take a boy in a public [private] school and flog him, perhaps for something he has not done, and one never hears a word about it." R. W. Sorensen, Labor Member of the House of Commons, announced that he would ask the Minister of Health "if he is aware that...
Constance Bennett, who might or might not be 15-year-old Peter Bennett Plant's mother, finally won legal guardianship of him, after twelve years of claims and counterclaims, in & out of court. In 1932, two years after nicking the late Playboy Phil Plant for a $1,000,000 divorce, she said young Peter was her godson, formally adopted him. Last fall, during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter...
...spring of 1942 Mrs. Mina Curtiss was in Iowa, conducting a radio program and driving around the state to find out how the families of soldiers & sailors felt about the war. When she read a shoe-box full of letters a soldier had written his mother, she "decided that there were neighbors all over the United States who not only would want to read letters from their own sons and husbands but who would be hungry, as I was, for every bit of firsthand information they could get about the lives of our men overseas." From all over...
...Visitors. Outside Dana, in a farm home behind a long lawn, lives Ernie's father, William Clyde Pyle. He is 76, partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie...