Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Burmese leaders think there is a chance that the army veterans might revert to the government side. Most optimistic is pretty, petite Mrs. Aung San. "After all, they are my husband's old army, and practically my sons," she says. "I am just like a mother to those boys. They'll come home soon and we'll welcome them back to the family...
Billie Burke, who now plays twittery movie matrons, used to be the vivacious, red-haired toast of New York. She earned $1,500 a week, kept a Rolls-Royce for herself and a "nice Packard" for her mother. She lived in a whirl of furs, maids and flowers, and married Follies Producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Last week in Collier's, Billie reminisced about the great Flo and the gaudy...
...there's something I can't see. Maybe it's because I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, like my mother says. But when I put those sentences back with their fellow sentences, and read them in the order that Dewey said them, I can't see any improvement. Take his speech on inflation in San Francisco last Saturday. A major part of it was an outline of six "steps" that would beat inflation. Most of them are about bringing "able and honest people to Washington, "men and women of integrity", or about "vigorously supporting our American system...
...spell "circus"? Answer: p-s-o-l-q-u-o-i-s-e. Explanation: Pronounce "ps" as you would in psychology, "olo" as you would in colonel, "qu" as you would in bouquet, and "oise" as you would in tortoise. Put them all together, they spell mother. Or possibly cholmondley...
Speaking of mother, mine has always said that I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, so usually I keep my mouth shut. But every so often I can't hold back any longer. Like now. I have here before me a little release the Democratic National Committee sent to the press over the weekend. It insists that the Democratic Party "is in complete agreement" with a number of things Dewey has said. Things such as these: "Our streams should abound with fish," (Denver, Sept. 21); "Everybody that rides in a car or bus uses gasoline and oil," (also...