Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgians, continued to give Fleet Street last week the trouble of guessing why he was in London on his third visit this year (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante). A very old family friend, with whom young widower King Leopold and his widowed mother Queen Elisabeth had been staying in England, last week had his solicitors insert as a letter in the London Times the champion disclaimer of the year: "We are instructed by His Grace the Duke of Portland to publish this complete and unqualified denial of every suggestion that has been made in certain newspapers in connection with...
...Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has begun an investigation of the case of F. William Burgess 1L after an appeal by his mother, it was learned yesterday...
Underlying purpose of Cleopatra's maneuvers, avers Ludwig, was to preserve her honor as patriot, mother, loving wife. In order to make this point, he rejects the orthodox version: that she made a deal with Octavian to assassinate Antony, tricked him into suicide, committed suicide herself only when her planned seduction of Octavian did not work...
...Harvard is really the mother of the Duke experiments," the emphasized. "William McDougall, professor of Psychology from 1919 to 1926, went to Duke in 1926. It is he who has sponsored the recent research there, and it is he who was instrumental in bringing to Duke Professor Rhine, the man who has conducted the recent phenomenal experiments there. No academic experiment in America has had the publicity of the Duke tests...
Leaving the territory of the phlegmatic mountain dwellers, the dirty trousered, bare-chested men and the Mother Hubbarded women, the road enters Mexico City through suburbs slightly worse than Harlem, slightly better than Philadelphia's Lombard Street. Toward the center of the city, the Vagabond found himself engulfed in screaming traffic that approached from a million different directions at once. To the Mexican driver, the horn is far more important than the brake, and the velocity and direction of his vehicle depend solely on the whim of the man at the wheel. If Rhode Island motorists are the worst...