Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominated for Governor the bearer of a name famed in many things save politics-William Henry Vanderbilt, 36, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who went down with the Lüsitania. Scion Vanderbilt has dabbled in Rhode Island politics since he became a State Senator ten years ago. His mother, Mrs. Paul FitzSimmons of Newport, is Republican National Committeewoman. Accepting the nomination, Politician Vanderbilt promised he would seek neither higher office nor a second term. His opponents: Democratic Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn; Walter E. O'Hara, operator of Narragansett Park race track (which Governor Quinn closed last...
...father's name was Elijah, and his mother's name was Eunice, and he was born at Westchester Landing on the Bronx River in New York in 1807. His Quaker parents christened him Ezra...
Built in 1596, a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture, the House is the birthplace of Katharine Rogers, mother of John Harvard. Katharine married Robert Harvard, of St. Saviour's, South wark (London), and there is good reason to believe that her most famous contemporary, William Shakespeare, was present at the wedding, for not only was he a Stratford neighbor of the Harvards, but also was a member of the South-wark parish where John was baptized...
...purchased the House and completely restored it to its 16th century aspect. Miss Corelli was convinced that the structure should belong to the University; she wrote to Morris, "You may call it a romantic notion perhaps, but I should like to think that the house of John Harvard's mother was a link with John Harvard's university, and a sign of friendship between the two nations...
...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...