Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future now depends, is little known to the U.S. public. There is a reason for this public ignorance. Dodge admits "a congenital dislike to talk about myself. I have a horror of people who make a long putt on Sunday and talk about it for the next two weeks." Mom Knew Best. The first-born of Joseph Cheesman Dodge, a poster artist, and his piano-playing wife Gertrude was brought up in an eight-room house on Detroit's middle-class Kirby Street. Life was pleasant and easygoing. In the evenings Joe and his brother and sister liked...
Their father often took Joe and his brother on hiking and camping trips, which inspired Joe with one of his earliest ambitions: to be a forest ranger. But Mom knew better. Said she: "I'm sure Joseph is going to be a banker. He is the only boy of his age who doesn't like to get his hands dirty." After graduation from Central High School and a false start as a glue salesman, Joe began his banking career as a messenger boy at Detroit's Central Savings Bank. Soon he was a bookkeeper and had taught...
Snap, Crackle, Mom...
...those teen-age monsters get Mom's breakfast ... as well as their own . . . before taking...
...association's nutrition experts, meeting in San Francisco last week, agreed that the poll represented the most scathing indictment of the American Mom since Philip Wylie (in Generation of Vipers) held her over his hot temper and roasted her to a charred turn. The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs and perc the coffee. Furthermore, the survey showed, many teen-age girls are scared by diet-conscious mothers into skipping breakfast. Then, after the breakfastless daughter goes off to school...