Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...right hand, son of good fortune, was a whole tableau in itself; it meant a chapter every night, sermons an hour long, and Sunday school every Sabbath; it meant a long and tearful discussion between Mr. and Mrs. Buttefield, senior, and Mrs. Butterfield's mother, at Benjamin Emilius' birth; it meant a narrow escape from such biblical prefixes as Arphaxad, Peleg, Uz, Mash, Hazarmaveth, and the like...
Emile Zola is writing a new play for the Odeon; the manager has asked him to be as discreet and virtuous as possible, so that they may announce the play as one to which any young girl might bring her mother...
Questions propounded by an E. C. [esteemed contemporary] for solution by the class in Freshman Physics : What velocity must a locomotive have to pick up a deaf man walking on the track and fling him so high that six cars pass before he comes down? A mother standing at the gate calls to her boy who is exactly sixty-eight feet distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time...
Woolson Morse has nearly completed his new opera, the story of which is based on a Mother Goose nursery rhyme. It is to be called "Madame Piper...
...terrible double tragedy came to light in Waterbury, Vt., yesterday. A man murdered his wife and mother and concealed their bodies...