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Word: mothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilder discarded the possibility of a lack of interest in, or support of, the drama, as a plausible excuse for the decline of the theatre in Cambridge. "The mother of cooperation is merit," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Playwright, Says Drama Club Had 'Verve' in Past | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Frank Donald Coster graduated from Heidelberg with an M.D. and a Ph.D., practiced medicine in New York City from 1912 to 1914. He quit practice to become president of Girard & Co., a small drug manufacturer owned by his mother's family. In 1926 he bought control of McKesson & Robbins, old and honored New York drug house, and made it the nucleus of a nationwide manufacturing and distributing business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Drug Mystery | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Biltmore stands to do $44,800 worth of extra business in bed & board, maybe that much more in fun & liquor. Another $26,600 lurks behind invitations to "100 of the most popular debutantes" of the season. Those who join this "Fledgeling's Fling in Florida" must bring along mother or a chaperon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida Fling | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...writes its prospectuses, selects its books, designs such important ones as the five-volume King James Bible, drives a shrewd bargain with printers and illustrators, runs his swanky Madison Avenue offices like an efficiency expert. Within walking distance is his Park Avenue home, where he lives with the pretty mother of his Linda, 7, his Jonathan, 1. He races to his office before nine, usually eats lunch at his desk, stays long after his 25 employes have gone home. Last year he organized Heritage Club, a subsidiary for mass-production of imitation limited editions at $2.50 a copy. Also last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: De Luxe | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Called the most graceful person in the world,. the pretty figure, skater became a rage among movie and sport fans almost overnight. Her mother and four body guards had to keep a mob of admirers from tearing her apart, in the hall outside her dressing room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I Love Them All!" Says Sonja Henie of Harvard Men, Turning One Crimson With a Kiss to Prove She Meant It | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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