Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Wheeler, who started the whole thing, was a "mudlark" who worked the Thames for the leavings of the tides. He didn't know much, but one of the things he knew was that the Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently...
...tall tale of a 60-year-old woman who had not borne a child for 18 years; when her daughter died in childbirth, she took ixbut and had no trouble nursing her grandchild. There was the even taller tale of an Indian father who took ixbut and nursed his motherless infant himself...
...pastorate of Cleveland's Gethsemane Baptist Church. In over 1500 concerts in 45 States and 374 consecutive Sunday radio broadcasts, he has proved that there is no U.S. color line when it comes to the old Negro hymns (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child, etc.). For the past year, service men and their chaplains have bombarded the Rev. Mr. Settle with requests to bring "Wings Over Jordan" overseas. Good-humored preacher-director Settle is convinced that U.S. servicemen are turning to religion more & more, and he offers as proof the two songs most popular...
...London. He takes her from this lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted munitions makers ever spawned by the folklore of America's peace-befuddled '30s. They quarrel, haggle, hate, interbreed...
Anne Bullitt, motherless little rich girl who presided as first lady at the gloomy U.S. Embassy in Moscow back in 1934, was introduced to grown-up Washington society last week, will make her formal debut at Philadelphia on the 27th. Heiress to the Philadelphia Bullitt fortune, sophisticated beyond her years from Embassy life with father in Moscow and Paris, "finished" at Foxcroft, she is a dark-haired beauty in her own right...