Word: motherless
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...friends swore that his stated reason for replanting his roots in corn country was the true one: to give his daughter Diana, aged 6, a permanent home, permanent friends. If Mr. Hopkins goes on working in Washington, transplanted Diana will be fatherless most of the time as well as motherless...
...Scheldt, Belgians and Netherlanders have frequently been at odds for centuries. Van Zeeland is acute enough to realize that the two little countries must work together for their own good. In this he has been loyally backed by his King. Young Leopold has hired a Dutch nurse for his motherless children, setting a fashion among Brussels' smart set. Netherlanders are great colonial administrators, lately have been welcomed as colonizers in developing the Belgian Congo...
...began to prosper, was able to open a music shop and publishing house. At 23 he wrote his first important song, How Sweet Are the Roses, under the name of Alice Hawthorne. He followed it with such lyrics as What Is Home Without a Mother?, Rebecca at the Well, Motherless Kate, There Is Wealth for Honest Labor...
...Gigli) sing on the radio, Helen Carlton (Joan Gardner) has a shipboard romance with First Officer Hugh Anderson (Ivan Brandt) on the way to the U. S. Believing malicious gossip, she jilts Officer Anderson on arrival, rebounds into the arms of Tenor Curti, whom she meets after finding his motherless son (Richard Gofe) in the hotel corridor. Married, they go off on a world tour which gives opportunity for a sound montage of excerpts from nine of the great operas. In London comes the inevitable second encounter with First Officer Anderson...
...stepped into the national spot-light when she went with 79-year-old Grandfather John Manuel Landon to the Cleveland Convention last month, kept breathless cameramen, radio announcers, feminine newshawks and lady politicians on the run for three days. But she has long been well-known to Kansans. Left motherless at 13 months and reared by a soft-voiced, Irish nurse named Theresa Cahill, she was only 6 when her father began taking her on some of his oil-prospecting trips around the State. Ever since then they have been close companions. On his frequent nights away from home...