Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand thanks and kisses," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to her mother-in-law from Germany. "I feel as though we would have such a long arrears of kisses and cuddly times to make up when we get home...
...honeymoon, trotting around Europe, buying dresses, furs, linens, rare books and antiques. They were hobnobbing with the great and near-great, but they never forgot to write to Mama. Sara Delano Roosevelt had tried to break up her son's romance with Eleanor; nevertheless, she was an indulgent mother and a friend in time of need. The "thousand thanks" were for an unexpected $500 windfall from...
...private investigator tracked Mrs. William Pratt, 37, mother of three, to a dingy $14-a-month shack in Binghamton, N.Y., notified her and her unemployed husband that oil had been discovered on an Illinois farm which her grandfather" had once owned. She could expect an income that might run to $18,000 a year. Grandfather had sold the farm but kept the mineral rights, and willed them to his heirs...
...York, where the only ground for divorce is adultery, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank Hogan officially discovered what every judge, lawyer and common citizen had known for years-the existence of "divorce rings" which systematically fake evidence of adultery. His chief witness was a 20-year-old mother of three named Sara Ellis, whose fee for being "discovered" in a hotel room with a divorce-seeking husband...
Died. Anna Jarvis, 84, originator of Mother's Day; in West Chester, Pa. In 1914 Spinster Jarvis finally lobbied Congress and President Wilson into designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, spent the rest of her life vainly scrapping with florists, candy makers and greeting-card companies to keep them from commercializing...