Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what about Yale? Well, if Harvard begets the indifferent before his time, and if Princeton spawns Joe College, infantile beyond his time, then Yale, as she has often been called, must be the "Mother of Men." Yale News...
Visiting a garden dedicated to the memory of George V, Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, genteelly prodded some ivy with her umbrella, vowed: "If I had a pair of secateurs [pruning shears], I would cut it off now. ... If I come next year and it's still there, I will clip it off." "Her Majesty," translated a lady-in-waiting, "doesn't like...
Fashion, always a "silly and senseless dame," said Boston's 79-year-old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, is "even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...
Engaged. Joe Di Maggio, 24, star centre fielder of the World Champion New York Yankees; and Dorothy Arnold, 20, screen & radio performer. Said Joe's hearty, well-publicized mother, a resident of San Francisco's Beach Street: "Joe no say a thing to me. No talk of this love business." Said Miss Arnold: "We sort of started to go around together and the first thing we knew-or at least that I knew-it was getting hotter." The announcement was hardly out when Centre Fielder Di Maggio, chasing a fly ball, hurt his ankle, was expected...
...only the five hatters but their three doctor brothers, 82-year-old mother and three sisters live within eight blocks of each other. Six of the Portis clan drive Buicks. All have bridge and golf as hobbies. The four who work in the Chicago plant drive there together, arriving sharply at 8:15. Seven of the brothers have two children apiece. One has three. In 25 years they have hardly ever disagreed. Says Henry proudly: "We put business ahead of profits and it worked...