Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agony Column. In Manhattan, a mother inserted an item in the personal notices: "Julius. You're IA. Come home...
...been a country gentleman, a younger son reared not for the throne (that was for gay Edward), but for the ancillary quiet of a royal dukedom. A strict father, a stalwart mother and some reserve within himself gave him an air of strict propriety. A governess, tutors, a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon...
Gentle yet earthy King George VI would probably feel more atune to the words of a British mother, refusing to send her children to safety in the U.S. at the war's start. Said she: "Something is happening here they must feel and know if ever they are to be a part of England again. Whatever the risks, I cannot rob my children of their country...
Kasturbai had been Mohandas Gandhi's child-bride of three-score years ago, when he was a boy to whom marriage meant "good clothes to wear, drum beating . . .processions, rich dinners, and a strange girl to play with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle...
Arthur MacArthur, the General's son, turned six in Australia, was photographed on a shopping tour with his mother...