Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City Star correspondent promptly found an 18-year-old Beloit student who described her experience: "All of us girls had been threatened before with sterilization unless we behaved ourselves. I knew it wouldn't do any good to kick although I didn't want it done. . . . My mother heard . . . after it was over and protested. ... I thought for a while that life had very little left for me but I have since changed and want to be a beauty operator. . . ." The mother of another Beloit inmate, a Mrs. Betty Benson, somewhat ambiguously declared that her sterilized daughter Bertha...
...crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants to paint the lad. Says she: ''What color?" From then on Mammon begins losing rounds. The escapade winds up with reconciled principals pushing puffy Mr. Palmiston through the portrait of Blue Bolt...
...sudden reappearance in the public eye were two articles in the Satevepost by Larry Kelley, "with" Sportswriter George Trevor, Yale '15. They were written in the offhand style affected by famed athletes in the Satevepost, were full of such autobiographical data as: "I was a shy, sensitive boy. . . . Mother wouldn't let me try for the team until I filled...
Born in 1798, Delacroix had an adventurous infancy. He was dropped from a ship's side by one careless nurse, nearly burnt up by another, and when he reached the age of reason came close to hanging himself in imitation of an engraving. From his German mother Delacroix may have inherited the responsiveness to Flemish art which showed itself in a life-long admiration for Rubens. His first masterpiece, Dante and Vergil, which was exhibited when he was 24, was described by his master as "Rubens chastened." Beginning his journal in that year, Delacroix scribbled down a daily medley...
...that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...