Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flag, and the inevitable Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some of the ditties are wryly humorous, like The Invalid Corps, which pokes fun at the era's equivalent of 4-Fs. But most songs hark sentimentally back, like Aura Lea, to languishing sweethearts or, unabashedly, to home and Mom...
...pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...Exeter--has the dubious advantage of glibness. He probably gave even less though to his article than his antagonist. To him all public school boys are doomed to intense concentration in academic life, aimed solely at getting a lucrative position in their home town environment. He throws around Mom and Togetherness as if tney were synonymous with a public school background, a theory which only demonstrates his complete disassociation from the world of which he writes...
...Lassie's old playmate Jeff (Tommy Rettig), who in reel life had to go off to high school, but in real life had outgrown the part (hair on the chest is permissible for a collie, but not a collie's young pal). With him went widowed Mom (Jan Clayton), who told viewers she had to move to the big city to look after Jeff, but off-screen confided that she was simply weary, weary of wearing the same shabby dress...
...that instant the reader feels a secret sympathy for Gerald's decision to take his chances with the Reds: better Mao than Mom. By story's end, Mom buries Baba (forgetting that Father is quite as stately a name as Mother), and is left palpitating on a significantly empty stage...