Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mother Goose Censored
...that TIME, always timely, was not aware of a collection of amusing little verses now being widely circulated under the title Mother Goose Censored? It seems to me that you might have made use of it in your article "Goose Dispute," in the Dec. 9 issue. The editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped...
...Mother Goose Censored, copyrighted by one Kendall Banning, sells at well-equipped bookstores...
...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...
...April 2, 1725, in Venice, was born Giacomo Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's propensities, thus honestly acquired, were opportunist, not to say immoral, and he followed his bent. When he was 72, he wrote his famed Memoirs, The Story of My Life Until the Year...