Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opens upon the breakfast table of the Garth-Banders, and as the members of the family tumble down to breakfast and begin to chatter unmercifully, the spectator finds he has been served: (1) a seemingly absent-minded but really very wise father; (2) an excitable, harassed but well-loved mother; (3) a sporty undergraduate son, much given to snappy, devastating insults; (4) a bouncy, easily-bruised daughter, much given...
...small children knew that at this very minute Paul Revere and Mother Goose were sharing the same plot of ground, they would be sadly disillusioned. But if they took the trouble to walk down Tremont Street past Park Street Church and look in to the left, they could see the place for themselves--the Old Granary Burial Ground, where the tombs of Paul Revere and Mrs. Mary Goose, who wrote the famous verses for her grandchildren, lie only 50 feet apart...
Life With Mother. A little phonier than Life With Father, but just as much fun (TIME...
...vulgarity in bucketfuls, like swill. It is, to be sure, burlesque; but burlesque, in some cases, of theater types for whom mere satire might be understatement. Yet its most successful moments stem from the actual small details of show business, and its most entertaining characters-the star's mother (Phyllis Povah) and the producer's wife (Audrey Christie)-are lowbrow rather than outrageous...
...earliest records of Christianity, but no reference to it appears in canonical scripture. Accepting the apocryphal account of the event as genuine, Gregory of Tours (538-593) tells that, as the apostles were watching round the dying Mary, Jesus appeared with angels and committed the soul of His mother to the Archangel Michael. Next day, as the body was being carried to the grave, He appeared again and carried it in a cloud to Heaven...