Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been put to bed and left by his mother while she went to help her husband shut their grocery store for the night. Some one slit the rear screen door and carried off the child in his pajamas. Lodgers upstairs heard only a faint sound which they thought was the Cashes coming home. A ransom note was found...
...rhythms of military bands, last week reverberated to one of Britain's best bands, Bert Ambrose's Prince's Restaurant Orchestra. King George & Queen Elizabeth were entertaining some 1,000 "personal friends" at the Royal Derby Night Ball. Among the guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout was Ambassador Kennedy, who stuck to his long trousers...
...death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration $5,696 another $2,314, loaned during the tough-going days. With two mothers the judges had difficulty...
Last year, conforming to this wish, a group of Belgian musicians, led by Ysaÿe's lifelong friend and former pupil, Queen Mother Elisabeth of Belgium, founded the Concours International Eugene Ysaÿe. To Brussels, with fiddle cases under their arms, flocked contestants from 26 nations, eager to try for the bantamweight violin championship of the world. To the surprise of all, the lion's share of honors went to five young Soviet Russians...
...ashamed tells of her brief marriage, which took her to Malaya, where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband's sullenness and doubt, her own inertia...