Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amarillo, Tex., Mrs. Roosevelt received the "world's biggest bouquet"-a 2,500-pound bunch of roses, bound with chicken wire and swung on a derrick- at a celebration of Mother-in-Law Day which involved a parade with a float carrying 591 mothers-in-law, and 50,000 spectators. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "I feel I shall think more about mothers-in-law after this...
...loss when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew out and wrecked...
...John Simon hopefully announced, is now running 13% above last year in the United Kingdom, but his White Paper is frank in showing that the Chancellor has not planned as yet where he will get some $275,000,000 of the $1,758,750,000 he is sure Mother Britain is going to spend on Safety First...
...Byronic character but for his writing. He recoined the delicate noun "affinity" into its special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...
...taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles. He gives, in short, a strong suggestion that his childhood opinion of his uncle has not changed very much after...