Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county, 20 were not 65 years of age. Among the discovered beneficiaries were 157 corpses, twelve inmates of insane asylums. Over 1.400 case files were missing. Other interesting pensioners: an aged Negro who lived on a county line, had changed his name to draw pensions in both counties; the mother of a $14,000-a-year major league baseballer; a woman at whose home the investigator had been received by a butler. Snorted Representative Jack Nichols of Eufaula: "I didn't know there was a butler in Oklahoma...
...thousand Indians soon began work on the 3,000-acre Congress City site, many of them volunteers toiling for love of Saint Gandhi & Mother India. Last November the timetable of the builders was badly upset when the Tapti River unseasonably rose in flood, and failed for six long weeks to subside. During this time it was impossible to ferry across the angry waters the pipe and corrugated iron sheeting needed for the Congress City. The Congressman in charge of the work, Mr. Nanda Lai Bose, a dry goods merchant by profession, went upriver in search of a shallow ford, discovered...
...four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that the unconscious mind therefore tends to augment it with a fourth element. This is probably woman-the anima, or earth mother; although Dr. Jung points out that the element of evil, or the devil, is also excluded from the God-symbol, in which it might logically take part. At this point Dr. Jung excuses himself, declaring: "The church, I assume, has to invalidate any attempt at taking such results seriously. She must...
...Austrian father and a Hungarian mother, a girl baby was born 46 years ago in Bridgeport, Conn. As she learned to talk and experiment with things, little Bessie Pastor showed herself to be a bright child. In high school she diligently studied chemistry, later went to a technical school. To her girl friends she passed out soaps and lotions, the products of her own test tubes...
...DILEMMA-Katharine Mayo-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Elaborately researched, mustily told account of an involved cause celebre, now forgotten. The gist: Washington weaseled out of his mandate to execute a British officer in reprisal for the killing of an American sympathizer in Monmouth County, N. J.; by the author of Mother India...