Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born in the little village of Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland, the eldest of eleven children. His mother, a strong-willed woman, was determined that he should be a priest. To please her, when he was 18, he went off to Spain and the University of Salamanca. But Spain made him restless-he steeped himself in the wild history of the Spanish conquistadors* -and after a year and a half he went to Cherbourg, and slipped off to America in the steerage of a liner...
Linda Susan Agar, aged four months, posed for her first picture with mother Shirley Temple, 20, who not so long ago was a little shaver herself...
...bleached an improbable pale blond. By theatrical standards, his act is too broadly conceived and overplayed-but it goes well in a sports arena. Men jeer him with catcalls and wolf-whistles. When a woman fan heckles him, he retorts acidly: "I told you not to come down tonight, Mother...
...Lillian Hellman's study of the five Little Foxes and how they grew; the Hubbard family is seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work on their neighbors...
...Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...