Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...omitted to mention along with the fact that Hearst dragged his readers through depravity, jingoism, and sex murder, that he was the first to campaign for good roads, woman's suffrage, that through his mother he established the Parent-Teachers' Association, and that in the horse-&-buggy days this was yellow journalism. Today, it is accepted progress...
Brand Pinker, who helped Conrad, Arnold Bennett and D. H. Lawrence cut their publishing teeth, Eric Pinker took over his family's lucrative U. S. business in 1930. Since then he and his partner-wife, Actress Adrienne Morrison (mother of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett), have captivated many a literary tea. Shocking it was, therefore, when angry old Author Oppenheim accused Eric Pinker of withholding $21,000 owed him for U. S. publication of his works...
...Banker Aldrich spent seven minutes on the stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...
...trophies were returned to Mother Baudoin in a pleasant ceremony at the City Hall at Versailles. Mayor Henriet expressed the Government's apologies...
Because ten-year-old Willie Sprague quarantined and the only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...