Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Executions of Old Bolsheviks were explained to Mother Bloor by showing her photographs of letters by Lenin. As translated by her interpreters these disparaged...
...farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
White-haired but exuberant and bouncing Ella Reeve Bloor, 75. "Mother" of U. S. Communism returned last fortnight from three months in the Soviet Union. Now the No. i female member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, with a record of twelve grandchildren and 36 arrests. Mother Bloor last week gave her impressions of Communism in Russia...
...long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy, succeeded to the place of No. 1 Impressionist composer. Born in 1875 in a Pyrenees town, of a Basque mother and a French-Jewish-Swiss father, Ravel kept all through life an affection for Spanish folk music, allowed its idioms to influence many of his compositions. Despite a reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students...
Hardheaded, slippery Hero Ulysses left home with his mother's blessing when he was six. At 18 he had been a bootblack, a harbor scavenger, a hashish peddler in the brothels of Alexandria. His next move was to embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British army in the Sudan. At Khartoum he saw Chinese Gordon killed by the Moslem Mahdi, became the Mahdi's finance minister and political adviser for ten precarious years that included his forced marriage to a captive nun in an obscenely burlesqued ceremony. Meanwhile he had become Kitchener...