Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this has the approval and consent of my Mother, who owns the property during her lifetime...
...ever taken First Class Honors at Oxford in the extremely difficult Oriental Languages. When Queen Victoria yet reigned everyone knew of the celebrated quarrel of obstinate Artist Whistler and obstinate Baronet Sir William Eden over the price of the beautiful painting by Whistler of Mr. Anthony Eden's mother. Today everyone knows that in 1935 a most important British General Election was won by the Conservatives, partly because "the country" believed Anthony Eden was somehow going to make of the League of Nations a shining sword and with it slay the Dictators...
...general strikes were what in other countries had opened the way for dictatorships. ... You showed that you had learned a lesson and understood that the best guarantee of liberty is the authority of the State, and that is why you refused to strike against the Republic, which is the mother of the right to organize labor as well as other privileges of a free government. ... I said that I would enforce respect for republican law. It was respected...
...sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted it &the most original book of 1936.& Its originality was its oldtime local color, particularly in its vivid reminder of Mother's cooking on the farm. And it sold over 30,000 copies...
...Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...