Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea for Mother's Day came to Miss Jarvis on the second Sunday in May, 1907, the first anniversary of her mother's death. She persuaded a Philadelphia church to hold a special service: in a few years every church in the land was holding special services. In 1908 the Governor of Florida issued a special Mother's Day proclamation. Before he died a few years ago he called Miss Jarvis to his bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor...
...beginning to be afraid that Mother's Day has got completely out of hand. She still sends violent telegrams to President Roosevelt, occasionally walks round Philadelphia streets carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death. But mostly she stays behind the heavy curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number...
...Golden Rule: "Whatsoever ye would that others should do for your mother if she were in need, and whatsoever your mother would do for the needy if she had the opportunity, do in her name and in her honor for other mothers and their children, victims of present-day maladjustments...
...which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people, were so terrified by science that they confessed enthusiastically to everything. But the public indignantly protested the newfangled lie-detector. The defense got an injunction, mother and son were finally sentenced only for stealing Bassett's car, which, when not under the lie-detector's influence, they claimed they had legitimately bought. Mrs. Smith got eight years; Earl, as an habitual criminal, got life...
...Roosevelt is the first U. S. President in modern times to speak really fluent French, and both his mother and his wife share his feelings for La Patrie. Last week, when London put to Washington the idea of permitting Paris to cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French...