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Word: moms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Yules separated. Mom, who kept Sonny, found the going hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...with some six or eight other footloose vaudevillians, Mom bundled Sonny and luggage into two automobiles, headed for Hollywood. It was 1925. Sonny was five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Mom got $15 knocked off her rent for taking charge of a bungalow court. Joe Yule Jr. got some small parts, sometimes made as much as $50 a week. But this was small change compared with the dreams Joe Yule Jr. was beginning to dream in the heady Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Afternoons off, Mom and her son, like two characters out of a Theodore Dreiser novel, would go for long bus rides through booming Beverly Hills. Joe promised his Mom a big house some day and a great big car "where you sit inside and the chauffeur sits outside and gets rained on." Mickey McGuire. Through thick and thin Mom has always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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