Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before she knew it, people were shaking her hand and calling her "Champ." She planted a consolation kiss on Darrell's reluctant cheek. What would she do with the $500? Her mother thought she ought to save it for college. Said beaming Mrs. Chappelear: "I only finished high school. My husband almost finished college. I'm sure Jean will make...
...August 1932, five Nazi bully boys trampled a man to death in front of his mother. Up-&-coming Party Leader Adolf Hitler hailed the murderers as heroes. Next day Headmaster Kurt Hahn of Germany's Salem (pronounced Zah-lem) School (near Lake Constance) notified every graduate that the time had come to choose: "Break with Hitler or with Salem...
Died. Dame** May Whitty, 82, peppery, untiring stage-&-screen actress, wife of onetime Matinee Idol Ben Webster, mother of Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes...
...indulged them. His family had two estates in Normandy and a luxurious Paris apartment. By his own account he was a singularly unattractive youngster and only five when he began to practice "bad habits." A picture taken of him about that time "represents me half hidden in my mother's skirts, frightfully dressed in a ridiculous little check frock, with a sickly, ill-tempered face and a crooked look in my eyes...
Nervous and shy, he was a poor student in school and made few friends. Once, told by his mother to kiss a cousin, "I went obediently up and she drew me towards her; but at the sight of her bare shoulder and its dazzling whiteness, some sort of craziness possessed me; instead of putting my lips to the cheek she offered me, fascinated by her dazzling shoulder, I gave it a great bite . . . My cousin screamed with pain and I with horror. She began to bleed and I to spit with disgust...