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Word: mothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German mother country will not allow to go unanswered this shabby treatment of racial comrades." Germany promptly expelled an equal number of Britons, "for reasons," said the responsible official, "I presently am unable to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shabby Treatment | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Thousands on the docks shouting "God bless you!" "A happy voyage!" "Give our love to America!" Seventy-one-year-old Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, wiped tears from her eyes. The King's daughters, Princess Elizabeth, 13-year-old heir-presumptive to the throne, and Princess Margaret Rose, 8, waved handkerchiefs. An obsequious bevy of Ministers, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, lined up to say goodby. The great white liner provided for the King's conveyance-Canadian Pacific's 25-year-old Empress of Australia, formerly the German Tirpitz-the spoils of a victorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civil Servant | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Currick and Evans ($1.50). *Seldom used by lawyers is the term illegitimacy in adoption. A child born out of wedlock belongs to its mother, may legally bear her name and inherit her property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chosen Children | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...days later Barrymore filed suit in New York's Supreme Court for a separation from his wife. He also demanded from his wife, her mother, Mrs. Edna Jacobs, and their "confidential adviser" an accounting of $300,000 of his funds which he alleges they secured from him in money and property over a course of time. At week's end the defendants had not filed an answer to either suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Very, Very, VERY Tired | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...tests before they are sent to homes for trial periods before legal adoption. Few children are ever returned to agencies. Religious ties are respected, and often children of mixed blood are supplied upon request. Four-year-old Al Jolson Jr. is half-Irish, half-Jewish, to match his foster mother and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chosen Children | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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