Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday, the President observed Mother's Day by sending a basket of red roses and snapdragons from the White House gardens to Washington's First Baptist Church, where they were placed on the pulpit in memory of his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, who died last year...
...like at all, such as "Oono Dos Treys" by Bert Morton in order to get to the poetry, much of which is remarkably good. ("Oono Dos Treys," I should explain, is a labored story about a foetus that refuses to be born, but talks in erudite English inside the mother, an idea whose grotesque charm wears off rapidly after the first few scholarly pronouncements from the womb...
...Search. A mild but touching picture, made in occupied Germany, about a refugee child and his mother (TIME, March...
...girl who likes to play the piano, sing mezzo-soprano, play golf and watch the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. She hopes to go to Milwaukee-Downer College. She doesn't date much ("I've concentrated on scholarship"). When Patricia got word that she had won, her mother was more excited than she was. "Golly, was she excited," says Patricia. "I suppose I won't get excited until tomorrow...
...Lord Beveridge's book about his father and mother, who spent most of their working years in India, shows that some, at least, of the Anglo-Indians were not indifferent to the country and to their jobs. In 1857, when he was 20, Henry Beveridge went to "the dustbin of Bengal" as an administrator. In those days a man's best qualification for the Indian Civil Service consisted mainly in being able to answer such questions as: Write succinctly and in Latin biographical notices of the following personages, stating the date and place of birth of each: Theramenes...