Word: mothers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Coolidge would have come with me ... but she is not able to leave her mother. Mrs. Goodhue, who is very ill? so ill that I should not be surprised to get a report that she has passed away...
...Upshaw conversion came when be was 16. One night he arrived home drunk. Shocked, his mother put him to bed, told his father he was "sick." "Next day" he tells, "I got down on my knees and promised God I would never drink again as long as I lived. I never have...
...shall not allow technical points to override great public issues involved in our being able to come to a settlement." Loyal Help: Over 15 million dollars was to have been spent on building the war boats postponed by Britain last week- namely the cruisers Surrey and Northumberland, the submarine "mother ship" Maidstone, and two submarines. Thousands of workmen will have to be taken off these well-paying jobs. They are unionized, potent. Last week the Labor party's Ramsay MacDonald simply dared not throw too many shipyard constituents out of work. Therefore his speech contained this interesting passage...
...years ago in Boston, the son of Boston Symphonist Emmanuel Fiedler, who played second violin in the famed Kneisel Quartet. Fiddler Fiedler named his boy after the late great violinist Artur Nikisch, onetime Boston Symphony conductor. Aged 6, the boy studied violin with his father, piano with his mother. Later he went to Boston Latin School and studied piano with Carl Lamson, longtime accompanist to Fritz Kreisler...
Maurice Rostand, French author, lost a suit for plagiarism against the producers of a film The Little Match Seller which he claimed was a copy of a play he and his mother had made out of the late Hans Andersen's The Little Girl and the Matches. Besides refusing his claim, the court ordered him to pay $4,000 damages to the film producers, $600 damages to the theatre which withdrew the film when he filed his suit...