Word: mother
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possessing of the English language only an almost useless smattering acquired in school. Before the voyage across was ended he had acquired, by diligent and vigorous study, the power to speak, understand and write it with facility. He never spoke it exactly as does one to whom English is mother tongue, but the difference of late years was just enough to betray foreign birth, and in his English writings there soon ceased to be even a trace of whatever in writing corresponds to "accent...
...pity that there should be included in every play that even touches on an English household the pitiable and ridiculous figure of the love-sick slavey. There must be growing up a professional caste of those who from mother and daughter take this role. It is perhaps why such passable ability of that of Miss Bryton is in this case wasted. Also the hero (we call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American...
...Make a big fire in the fireplace for me," wrote Richard Hall, an American boy in the French Ambulance service, in a letter to his mother in Michigan, Richard, whose father was Professor Arthur Graham Bell, of the University of Michigan, and who was himself a student at Dartmouth, had gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare...
What about the folks at home? Well, they were illustrating the devotion which some American families have been showing in the last two years to the cause of France--to the cause of civilization. They had built the fire for Richard; but they did a good deal more. The mother became a volunteer nurse in the hospital at Neuilly. Before she came she had written a letter to Abbe Klein, the chaplain of the hospital at Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often...
...gift of these American mothers, whose heart thus goes to France, is an amazing thing. France is not their country. As the world goes, they are not compelled to make a sacrifice for her. But they make it, for very much the same reason that Richard Hall went to France because they "want the reassurance" of having met a world-crisis, a mighty and commanding test of right and wrong, even with the fullest sacrifice, if necessary, that a mother could offer. As Christmas comes on, we fancy that many a fire will be lighted in many an American fireplace...