Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion of Cotton Mather, another Harvard man, it received the name of Elihu Yale, a Boston native who, like John Harvard, had made a gift of books. From the first, historians say, relations between mother and child were intimate; students of both studied a similar curriculum, saturated in Calvinism, and transferred frequently from one to the other. Yet, as symbolized by the color which she adopted for her livery. Yale was much more conservative...
...Scholarship was established to honor the memory of the two Ames boys, who were lost at sea in a vain effort to rescue their father, Robert Russell Ames '07, in 1935. The committee making the award was composed of Mrs. Ames, mother of the two boys, Dean Hanford, and the president and treasurer of the Council...
...precedent by personally preannouncing the birth of her daughter over the radio (TIME, June 28, 1937). Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...
Dodging State taxes was, reported Master Flannery, a preoccupation of Colonel Green, as it had been of his mother. He had managed to pay no income taxes to any State by the simple process of citing to the tax collectors of each his residence in the others, especially Texas. Sharply condemning "migratory millionaires," Master Flannery opined that "conduct is of greater evidential value than mere declaration of intent...
...first marriage-a grave, poised, sandy-haired young man of 21, studying history, absorbed in music, and certainly unlike the youthful monstrosities Sinclair Lewis satirized in The Prodigal Parents. Last year Son Wells began working on his novel in Harvard, continued it in Mexico while visiting his mother, incidentally bringing Mexico into the story, delivered it last week to his publishers, Farrar & Rinehart...