Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother's Day in the Texas House of Representatives Governor W. Lee O'Daniel yelled into a microphone: "Hello there, mother, you little sweetheart. How in the world are you, you little bunch of sweetness?" Then he read "The Unknown Mother," a filial poem of his own composition...
...mother-I had to have...
...Mother's Boy. A stoutish, purse-mouthed man who looks out of shining spectacles with an amiably deliberate expression, Glenn Martin is exhibit A1 of what a human being can do by channeling all his time and talent in one direction. From his earliest kite-making days, he has been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time...
...Mother Martin did not. She used to carry the coal-oil lamp around at night while Glenn climbed about his contraption, gluing fabric on the wings, varnishing the struts...
Frequently he goes to Manhattan, tearing up the highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken...