Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known as an "easy milker" to milk by hand. Poth let six calves worry about that rather than his daughters, who milk the cows. A salesman of dairy farm equipment, ignorant of bovine prolificacy, when he saw Alta and six calves in one pen, inquired if she were the mother of all. Poth, seeing an opportunity to fool a "city slicker," did not discourage the idea. The salesman told a news reporter...
...bunches. On the way home last week, he stopped off at Chicago to dedicate a bridge and incidentally revise U. S. foreign policy of the last some 15 years (see col. 3). In Hyde Park the next day he sprang another rabbit. Sitting on the stone porch of his mother's house he gave a press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired...
...Bruno, 20, reputedly soon got his hand in bombing Valencia, and in Rome friends of his mother said she had told them: "If I had not been at our country place I would have stopped Bruno from going. He telephoned through to say he was leaving for Spain at dawn and nothing I could...
James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren...
...developed a few weeks ago, caused her to waste away, reduced her resistance to the pneumonia; and 3) her strange, ineffective brain. Then she was buried with a fresh corsage of gardenias and the crystal necklace which her constant fiance, a jewelry salesman named James Burns, gave her. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, whose second husband, like her first, is a structural iron worker, had kept a meticulous diary of her daughter's 2,096 days in bed. The doctor in the case, Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut, a closemouthed, popular suburban doctor, counted on being asked to publish...