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Word: mothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernardo O'Higgins, born 1780 was the natural son of a Chilean mother and an adventurous Irish father, Ambrosio O'Higgins. Born plain Ambrose O'Higgins in County Meath, Father Ambrosio went to South America to seek his fortune and was so successful that he became the Spanish-appointed Governor of Chile. Son Bernardo was educated in Spain and England, returned to work, later fight, for Chilean independence at the side of South America's famed liberator, José de San Martin. In 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins became benevolent dictator of Chile's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Worst Shake | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...durned good at the job he was aimin' to do. Mebbe it's because we all know that Jesse warn't really a bad man and a killer. What could a feller do when them blasted railroads robbed you of your lawful own, and then killed your poor old mother? And mebbe it's just because he was the cussin'est, dad-blame-dest, boldest buckaroo which ever come from Missouri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...good program, the management has added three new Disney cartoons, including "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood." Among other things, it shows Katherine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep, and should certainly not be missed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...Death of the Heart describes such a meeting. Heroine is Portia Quayne, a product of a lonely, itinerant girlhood with her mother in second-rate European hotels. Orphaned at 16, she goes to live with her halfbrother, a successful London ad man. His wife, a sophisticated dilettante, grudgingly tolerates Portia at the beginning, detests her after she finds and reads Portia's diary, whose wide-eyed observations on her guardians read like satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Innocent and Damned | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

From the age of twelve, when her mother died of cancer, till she was 23, when she married, Elizabeth Bowen lived much of the time with relatives in England, or on her own in Continental and English boarding houses, returning to Bowen's Court only on visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Innocent and Damned | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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