Word: mothers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the bold Irish mug of the Ambassador to Great Britain appears again on TIME'S cover [Sept. 18] or before he runs for President, I hope Kathleen or her handsome mother can do something about those hornrimmed glasses he affects. Some Kennedys think themselves wise as owls. Joe must want to look like...
...Return to Law." Next day, and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's trip to the Capitol, was his mother's 85th birthday. "I don't think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously...
...moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work. To that house went his first wife, Elizabeth Watson, mother of his three children, who died in 1916. Two years later he married Hazel Whittaker of Fort Wayne, Ind., took her home there...
...Germany who consistently dared to oppose Adolf Hitler was Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in common .with the corporal who became Germany's Führer;: both loved the Fatherland...
...people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family," call the superior "Good Mother." Many a home is now in a dither of pious excitement. With no regard for calendar dates, the Little Sisters have been celebrating their centenary. The mother house at St. Servan (which was a base hospital in World War I) celebrated in July, Brooklyn Little Sisters in August. In Detroit, where...