Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other two regents: Patriarch Miron Cristea of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, a venerable graybeard who barely survived a desperate illness last month; and sprightly Prince Nicholas of Rumania, a younger son of Dowager Queen Marie who minds his mother in matters of state but sometimes ignores her injunctions not to frequent night clubs...
...might be. Mrs. Fiske was in no condition to see babies. It was her opening night, she had been generous and thoughtful all evening on the stage, she was tired. So she passed off the invitation as the pleasantest of pleasantries, laughed sweetly and patronizingly, and before the proud mother was quite aware of it, the door was closed...
Dimly Miss Oelrichs remembers the house at Newport where she spent her childhood, petticoated among socialites who were her family's friends. But while Miss Oelrichs was still young her mother divorced Mr. Oelrichs on grounds of cruelty. With alimony small, with income from other sources slight, young "Bubbles" Oelrichs found herself growing up to the problem of maintaining a position with little money...
...Boston, Mass., a cat named Sarah, mother of 72, felt ill. After three days' agony she leaped to a store counter, wound a string around her paws and a decayed tooth, yanked out the tooth, felt better...
...undresses the sleeping Mein-chen, a farm girl, he is too overpowered by female beauty to awaken her. Toward the end of the War, still studying Greek, he meets Anna, a trolley conductorette, and proves his love by taking her some of Germany's scarce meat from his mother's cupboard. Anna loves him in return, promises to reveal the mystery. But after an air raid a report is sent: "Direct hit. We've covered up all that's left...