Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest and most active New Deal Justice, Bill Douglas, planned (unless the illness of his wife's mother interferes) to spend most of the summer close to Washington, at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. Some observers discerned in this plan an unusual situation: a Justice of the Supreme Court who is still an executive insider. Since his elevation from SEC, Bill Douglas has been by no means inaccessible to his friend, Jerry Frank, now running that agency, to Janizary Tom Corcoran, and to the President himself. His week-end cruise with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins last...
...Thetis, a sea nymph, was the mother of Achilles. * Ironically, while the British press fumed, the German press soft-pedaled criticism, offered condolences. Said the usually inflamed Volkischer Beobachter: "Events such as these unite the world above all political differences in a common hope and a common sorrow. Today we extend our warmest sympathy...
...Holy Father learns with deep solicitude of the devoted pilgrimage of his beloved son, Fred Snite. In fervent prayer he commends him to the loving care of our Heavenly Mother...
Joachie Hubert, an unemployed Manhattan waiter, believes that a child who steals should be ruthlessly punished. When his 12-year-old son, Joachie Jr., stole $3 from his mother's purse, Joachie Hubert hung a sandwich sign over his son's shoulders, marched with him to school. The sign said: I AM A THIEF. I STOLE MY MOTHER'S MONEY...
...Distinctly not one of the gay-blade emperors of Imperial Rome was Tiberius Claudius Nero (42 B.C.-A.D. 37). Son of one of Julius Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...