Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini, have a care! You've ruined the Woman I love, Democracy; killed my aged mother, the League of Nations; sunk the British fleet and set fire to the Empire-but beware...
...night-club and cabaret belt, was the scene of the most celebrated crime in Hawaiian history-rape of Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife of a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, followed by the death of a Hawaiian suspected of the crime and the conviction of Mrs. Massie's mother, husband and two men for manslaughter. Last week, Flapper's Half Acre made sordid news again. A telephone call for an ambulance brought police to the sumptuous beach house of thick-jowled young Prince David Kalakaua Kawananakoa...
David Kawananakoa, "Prince Koke" to white Hawaiians, is the grandnephew of the last male member of Hawaii's long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house...
...When his father and mother died in 1936, 20-year-old Robert Lee Bristow of Saluda, Va., inherited a share in a down-at-heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors...
...royal conveyance. Asserting that 37-year-old Queen Elizabeth "could still have another child" who if male would be Prince of Wales, United Press disclosed for the first time last week these little-known facts thus: "Princess Elizabeth was a Cesarean baby, and Margaret Rose was premature, her mother being scientifically starved for several months beforehand to facilitate the birth...