Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shark at mathematics and a promising undergraduate journalist. After graduation he went to the University of Chicago's Law School, where he met and married Katherine Biggins. She finished law school with him and was admitted to the bar but instead of practicing became the mother of two small Magills...
...Island one summer day 19 years ago, a tipsy slattern wove into the chop suey restaurant of Fung Kwok-dong, plunked down on a table a naked boy infant, offered to sell him for $1. Fung Kwok-dong impassively handed over a dollar bill. Two years later when the mother tried to get her son back Fung Kwok-dong went to court, won legal possession. The white babe was legally adopted and given the name Fung Kwok-keung...
Many times the elder Fung hinted by letter that he would like his white son to be with him but every time the boy would reply in exquisite Cantonese that he preferred to remain with his honorable mother and his cherished sister, Su Hung...
Said New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "Take the patriotic approach. . . . The nation has an interest in every expectant mother because her child may be a boy. Even if it isn't, it at least is the potential mother of future boys...
Lucile Watson is wondrously wise and imperturbable as the mother with career and past. Violet Heming is duly volatile and saccharine as a sister-in-law who is a pioneer in another field; that of making annual pilgrimages to Reno, Nevada. Nicholas Joy is perfectly suave and self-possessed as the ex-Communist poet. Haila Stoddard, making her debut in the part of the darling daughter, proves herself a highly capable actress and creates great expectations...