Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave this topic in Current Events and my teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter to convince my teacher. If you could I will appreciate it very much. MARIAN L. SHIELDS
...eggs, as soon as laid, were penciled with the date and the name of the mother, and were then distributed among his friends, or sparingly eaten at his own meals. To eat a chicken itself was a kind of cannibalism from which his whole nature shrank. "I do not eat what I love," he said, rejecting the bowl of chicken broth I pressed upon him in his last sickness...
...unnaturally Japanese editors thought their readers would be interested last week in hearing about Donna Rachele Mussolini, whose condition was announced almost simultaneously with that of the Empress. Potent mother of three sons and a daughter, Donna Mussolini last week donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
...home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was writing tomes about the exploitation of the working class. Friend Engels was at Manchester holding down a job and scheming how to get hold of more and more money. Marx's letters to Engels had one refrain: "Lend me?" Eventually Engels sold his interest in a textile business, settled an annuity...
...point of view, nothing permanent could be accomplished except by a national school of music, with the best instructors in the world, with no entrance qualification but merit. In 1923 such a school opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother, consisting of three mansions donated by its founder in Rittenhouse Square. The first year's faculty included Josef Hofmann, piano; Marcella Sembrich, voice; Karl Flesch, violin; Leopold Stokowski, orchestra. By the end of its third year, Curtis Institute had taken its place as one of the leading schools...