Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most people believe that Western genius, for better or for worse, created the humming miracles of modern technology and science. But Moscow tells its children that that is just capitalist propaganda: Mother Russia really did it all. On "Radio Day" last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...
...tiny fishing villages that snuggle in Nova Scotia's rocky coves, there is no fisherwoman quite like Mrs. Annie Lyons of Hadleyville on Chedabucto Bay. A wiry little (105 Ibs.) mother of seven, she sports a boyish bob, a man's clothes and does a man's work...
William Waldorf Astor's lowdown on his mother, Lady Astor: "Mother likes to insult people and goad them, but if she finds they pay no attention or simply don't get angry, she stops...
...Master. "To me," Armstrong once wrote, "the key word is-Browning. His has been the master influence." To learn all there was to know about Browning, he often stayed at his books until 3 a.m., got up again at 6. But at midnight Saturday he knocked off; his Congregationalist mother had taught him that Sunday was a day of rest. When the clock struck midnight again on Sunday, he often went back to his books...
...when Eddie was twelve, the principal of his school asked his mother whether Eddie was feeling better. Said his mother: "I didn't know he wasn't feeling well." Eddie had been playing hooky for 43 days, using his lunch money for carfare out to Latonia, to fool around the horses. His father read him the riot act and sent him back to school. Six months later his parents caught him driving back from the race track again in the family Packard...