Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affectionate husband" between 35 and 50 years old ("I'm very affectionate myself," she explained). A Lexington, Ky. woman declared she would pay $10,000 for a man. And the Rev. E. L. Burr of Temperance, Mich, announced that he was looking for a husband for his mother...
President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers finally yielded his mother-in-law's missing darning needle. A doctor found it by X ray, managed to cut it out of where it had disappeared to when Rickey...
...time, Ohio Wesleyan University turned out so many prominent churchmen that its 20,000-odd alumni (paraphrasing Ohio's claim as the "Mother of Presidents") proudly call their alma mater the "Mother of Bishops." Last week, for the first time in its 106 years, Ohio Wesleyan picked a layman president: U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Sherwood Flemming...
...dear," said the mother of a three-year-old, "I think the time has come for us to talk about...
After his mother's death, Gide finally married Cousin Emmanuèele. She is the prototype of characters in several of his books, always as a devoted friend, with a long-suffering piety and a love of God that Gide sometimes found irritating. Em, as Gid e refers to her, is an off-stage character in the Journals. Critic Georges Lemaitre says of Emmanueéle that "when she came to understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died...