Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...
...auspicious debut. Mom strummed the ukulele in the blind pig that she operated in Lansing, Mich., and out onto the floor came a skinny, freckled five-year-old named Betty June Thornburg, with her sister Marion, seven. While the speakeasy customers sipped needled beer, the blonde moppets sang and wriggled their way through Black Bottom and other favorite anthems of the year...
...Mom didn't do anything real bad," recalls Betty Hutton, as larger audiences have since come to know the freckle-face. "How is a woman supposed to make her living with two kids when her husband deserted her? Mom just ran a joint on a small scale. We'd operate until the cops got wise. Then they'd move in and close us down, and we'd move somewhere else. Marion and I would entertain the customers by dancing and singing. We really lived that way until we were 12 and 14 years old . . . Things were...
Babcock has made this tour for 19 years and never seen the likes of this slaughter. The guilty hawk, he says, shuttles regularly between the Mom Hall and Memorial Church towers at feeding time, looking for his meal...
...midst of the festivities, somebody remembered Mom. "This day, let us transfer ourselves to the suburbs of Tbilisi," wrote Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, "and with reverent sorrow and ardent gratitude in our hearts silently bend our heads over the sacred remains of a small, modest Georgian woman, the mother who 70 years ago gave the world him who became humanity's greatest man, our leader and father...