Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chert's French Creole Pecan Pie ("My great-grandmother said her mother's family had the recipe . . . after eating, it is usually best to pull up an easy chair and relax...
...President seemed genuinely glad to be back. He acted like a man without a worry. He had one day of seclusion with his family in the big, ornately corniced house of Mrs. David Wallace, his mother-in-law. He ate a big turkey dinner, entertained his family with a couple of Chopin Nocturnes on the baby grand. Almost the entire day before election he spent with his fellow Shriners in Kansas City...
...McKenna believe it," screeched the Sage of the Age, fumbling his Ming stein. "Did you Reed that Mother Nature will be Wagner rain clouds over Princeton today. The Weber will be terrible...
...connection with local history does not end there, either. His mother, a direct descendant of John Knox, is also related to General Gage, of Continental Army fame...
These small recognitions certainly add as much to the play as Father's chronic rampageousness; and Life With Mother gains too, on the whole, from its many evocations of Life With Father. The family jokes are really family jokes by now; Father's "Oh Gaaad!" is emblematic as well as explosive. Howard Lindsay & Dorothy Stickney scarcely seem to be giving performances (though they are giving very good ones) ; Father and Mother have become too familiar to seem impersonated...