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Her mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.
Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.
Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.
Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.
Her mother also was a person of superior mind and broad interests.
Her eyes became bright as she talked about her father and mother, aunts and uncles, cousins.
Her mother and father, for instance.
Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.
Her mother was already considerably concerned over her daughter's future.
Her mother is the former Miss Stella Hayward.
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
Her mother was a Greer and her father's family came from the Orkney Isles.
Her mother was Agnes of Rochlitz.
Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.
Her mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.
Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.
Her mother was Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia, daughter of Pelops and Hippodameia.
Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.
Her mother, Nadezhda Kalmykova, was the daughter of a former serf who had bought his freedom before serfdom was abolished in 1861, allowing him to become a wealthy Moscow merchant .< ref >
Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.
Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.
His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

Her and discouraged
Her mother, Alexandra, is believed to have actively discouraged her from marrying.
Her mother did not attend and, allegedly, discouraged her daughter's siblings from attending as well.
Her explanation behind this, which is consistent with other studies, is that improvement in women ’ s labor market opportunities ( measured in real median wages ) made women less likely to give up their independence for marriage, and that the possibility of increased work hours due to welfare reform if women separated from their husband discouraged divorce among married women.

Her and such
Her brain and intelligence controlled every function from navigation to such loading as a scout ship of her class needed.
Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical techniques that critically challenged renowned male writers, such as Jean de Meun who incorporated misogynist beliefs within their literary works.
Her reign is famous for the defeat of the Armada, and for successful raids against the Spanish, such as those on Cádiz in 1587 and 1596, but some historians point to military failures on land and at sea.
Her resources overstretched by the two-front war, Germany pursued a policy of breaking up Russia from inside by providing financial support both to revolutionary groups such as the Bolsheviks and separatist factions such as the Finnish activists leaning toward Germanism.
This produces such terms as " Her Majesty's Government " and " His Excellency's Government.
Her thought was mainly influenced by individualist anarchists such as Han Ryner and Émile Armand.
The 583-item Collection La Caze donated in 1869, included works by Chardin ; Fragonard ; Rembrandt – such as Bathsheba at Her Bath – and Gilles by Watteau.
Her repertoire included working with such artists as Barry Humphries.
Her entry would be included in the encyclopedia until 1969, becoming readily accessible to the public, and it was for this reason that her ideas on the subject had such a significant impact.
Her portrait of Queen Elisabeth of Valois with a zibellino ( the pelt of a marten set with a head and feet of jewelled gold ) was widely copied by many of the finest artists of the time, such as Peter Paul Rubens.
Tax collection is performed by a government agency such as Canada Revenue Agency, the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) in the United States, or Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ) in the United Kingdom.
Her grief reaches such a point that a she's offered a chance to replace Anya as the vengeance demon of scorned women.
Her primary stock in trade consisted of invertebrate fossils such as ammonite and belemnite shells, which were common in the area and sold for a few shillings.
Her contemporaries thought she was spoilt by her parents, especially her father, who allowed her to take liberties not usually permissible, such as being allowed to stay up to dinner at the age of 13.
Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz featured in many movies, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, and the successful adaptation of Charlie's Angels.
It not only housed the scientific instruments to be used by Flamsteed in his work on stellar tables, but over time also incorporated a number of additional responsibilities such as the keeping of time and later Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office.
Her mother constantly criticized her for her inability to " inspire passion " in her husband, who rarely slept with her and had no interest in doing so, being more interested in his hobbies such as lock-making and hunting.
Her lady-in-waiting Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan replied on such rumors that Marie Antoinette visited the workshops of the village in a simple dress of white percale with a gauze scarf and a straw hat.
Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.
Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.
Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.
Her recent public performances have included charitable functions to promote products such as Zamu.
Her determination was such that, in 1932, she spent her life savings on a passage to Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China.
Her scholarship and renown was such that a leading newspaper in Palestine excitedly reported her plans to immigrate to Palestine.

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