Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study of literature (from Mother Goose to Sophocles and Shakespeare) was never more necessary than...
Girl: I couldn't understand it. He was about to strike his mother when...
Funt: He was about to hit his mother...
...audience didn't take kindly to her remarks, but they listened. And when, after the speech, Mrs. Wulff got an anonymous threat in the mail, that didn't stop her either. Nothing could. She talked on street corners and at over 100 rallies. Eventually, Norma Wulff, the mother of two grown daughters, talked herself into a seat on the school board. Four years ago she became the first woman president of Cleveland's school board...
...barflies campaign evidently started when Hearst, who disapproves of women in bars, called up the Los Angeles Examiner's Editor Ray T. Van Ettisch from his Beverly Hills villa. As the campaign got rolling, there was a spate of headlines like BABY ABANDONED BY BARFLY MOTHER. Hearst reporters knew, without anyone telling them, that they could get space with stories about women in bars. But it was a little hard to whip up public indignation. "The whole thing sounds as old-fashioned as the pink lady, sniffed a San Francisco woman, ordering another oldfashioned...