Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon as it is put to the specific test. Even God is called to account, but He is absolved by the tragic mother's denunciation of her own species. The Catholic Church does not escape O'Casey's pen unscathed, but the implication is that its oppression is be-wailed only by those doomed to misery in any case by their own impotence...
...description and a dentist's chart of his teeth. Anyone having information as to Burgess' whereabouts is told to communicate with Edward W. Fallon, Boston police official. To the left of the photograph is a facsimile of Burgess' handwriting, the end of a letter which he wrote to his mother, reading "Love to you and Father, (signed) Bill...
...request of the Darien, Connecticut, boy's mother, forty Coast Guard cutters from three states piled coastal waters yesterday, but latest reports did not reveal the whereabouts of man or boat...
Discouragement, delay, the difficulties of learning English, a sea voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half...
...frame convent she built on the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo., and her cause for beatification was approved by the Church nearly three years ago (TIME, March 25, 1935). Out last week was a readable and exhaustive 809-page chronicle of the order in North America by Mother Louise Callan, one of the order's most scholarly minds, who developed her history from the thesis she presented for her doctorate of philosophy at St. Louis University three years ago. She was dispensed from her semi-cloistered regimen so that she might inspect the Mississippi Valley sites where...