Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jangling telephones brought to Jon Bratiano's death bed, at 3 a. m., the three Regents* of Rumania, also Dowager Queen Marie, Princess Helene (mother of 6-year-old King Michael), and all the Cabinet Ministers, headed by the Premier's brother, Vintila Bratiano...
...Although she is the mother of King Michael (Mihai), she ranks below his grandmother, Dowager Queen Marie, because the latter has been a reigning sovereign, while Princess Helene...
Last of the condemned came the boy Juan Tirado. "Can I see my mother?" he asked, dully. Since his mother was not at hand, the request was refused. The riflemen, perhaps unnerved, did not shoot well-maimed but did not kill Juan Tirado...
...Farrar and Jeritza never met, the latter admired the U. S. singer tremendously, went often to hear her. The truth was that Farrar, sole relic of the Conried star system, was getting bits of discipline from the management. She herself was tired out, vocally, spiritually. The death of her mother had been difficult for her. There had been the divorce from Cinema-Hero Lou Tellegen* whom she married in 1916. When Mr. Gatti offered her a new contract, it was too late. She had already arranged a concert tour with Manager Charles Ellis of Boston. Never, they...
...cold rooms, life trickled on in Avarice House. Emily would walk through the halls counting the furniture that would be hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still...