Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cecilia Black. 35, mother of three, was Chicago's first female captive under the Five & Ten. Deserted by her husband, she was trying to eke out a livelihood transporting five-gallon cans of alcohol in the back...
...Treaty of Trianon has prescribed the right of Hungary to the language and education of her minorities. Nevertheless it is for the most part stultified by the stipulation of the law whereby Roumanians (Hungarians and former Hungarian citizens) who have "forgotten" their mother tongue must send their children to Roumanian schools. And the same situation obtains in Czeckoslovakia and Jugoslavia. It means that the Hungarian schools in these three countries step by step cease to exist, and all Hungarians are compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied...
...dusk, years ago, the onyx clock struck the somber hour of nine and the little fair haired child ran to his mother's knee to say his prayers. When he came to the end with, "bless father", he was startled by a large warm tear fallen from his mother's great brown eyes. Then he too knew that father would not be home until late, and --. But the girls of Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says...
...ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother, had an inspiration. When Author Connolly's mother returned home late one afternoon last week both her sons were missing, but a note identical with the last written lines of The Marble Coffin, was conspicuously present. Hastily summoned police discovered the author and his brother camping in a nearby field. Censured, Author Connolly protested: "You don't understand...
...always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance. Then there was her lonely mother?tragic fat wreck of a plump burlesque-girl. Then there was her father's excessively respectable mother who adopted Missie, re-established her in society...