Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Infanticide Act repealed the Infanticide Act of 1922 and introduced the reform that an English mother who slays her child before it is one year old is no longer guilty of murder but only of "infanticide," which is punished as manslaughter...
...Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
...Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy, bespectacled author of Lights of Singapore, hastily called...
Having sent this cable, His Highness prepared to leave Johore to spend another holiday in Sumatra, where it is not hard to find attractive mother & daughter setups...
...graciously issued a stately circular through their London solicitors, announcing that "all matters in dispute between them have been amicably settled." Items: they will file a deed of separation enabling them to be divorced in 18 months; two-year-old Son Lance will be in the charge of his mother as a child, of his father as a youth; the Countess makes no settlement on the Count...