Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prominent D.P.s got a royal welcome to Manhattan: Rumania's ex-King Michael and his mother Queen Helen. They weathered a whopping (more than 150 newsfolk) press conference...
...beautiful, black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire, Leonora Carrington was born 31 years ago in Lancashire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very unladylike manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1940 she suddenly went mad, spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum...
...Parrett, who lives on a Navajo reservation, answered no questions, wrote no essay, did not even hear the broadcast that made her rich. She qualified because she is a mother-in-law, and she won (over 3,000,000 others nominated by listeners) because her name happened to be drawn...
When a Manhattan merchant saw Christopher dressed up, he told the Geissmanns they ought to go into business. Last spring, they formed Merry Hull, Inc. (adapted from Mrs. Geissmann's mother's maiden name), installed Bob as president, Gladys as vice president. They raised $170,000 in capital from their savings and friends' subscriptions, got another $80,000 from enthusiastic citizens of Chambersburg, Pa., where the Geissmanns rented two small plants. Last week "Merry Mites," the company's wardrobe of practical clothes for boys up to four, went on sale in five top department stores...
Bored and restless, he cannot give his energies wholeheartedly to anything, to his mother's devout faith in the old traditions, though its rituals move him deeply, or to the independence movement, though he is aware that he is consequently left out of much of the life of the people around...