Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known since Roosevelt I paused there in 1902 to visit Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's grandfather. Anne's Boston background is thoroughly Republican (though not so dramatically Tory as Ethel du Font's) but many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars there were for the bride & groom's families...
...theirs for almost 1000 years. The sudetan German are not really German but bough Csechs made into German. And what a Germans. They make more trouble for Csech goverment than thouse shmutzig Teutons. Henlein their leader is half Csech himself and Csechoslov citisen. So Hitler's mother was Csech. Any other country would hang up Henlein long ago. ... If France, Russia and sly England will help Csechs it won't be because they like them, but because they know after they would get Csech German would turn on them. Hitler wants war and the sudeten half Czechs...
...result of investigations by Britain's air mission, which returned to England fortnight ago after scouting production facilities of U. S. and Canadian concerns. No Canadian contracts were let last week but the Ministry admitted that a move to aid Canadian aircraft production, in line with the mother country's longview program to make the Dominions self-sufficient in their rearmament, would soon be under...
...fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...
...with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl is a diffraction effect, caused by numerous tiny grooves in the smooth surface of the shell. The making of diffraction gratings is a high-precision job. It is done with a complicated ruling engine, carrying a diamond point back and forth across the plate...