Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...
Most of the adults among them had lived in the U.S. for 30 or 35 years. Most were not Communists and many had obviously prospered. Their children looked, talked and dressed like Americans. But they were certain that Mother Russia offered them more than America. Their passage was free. They had been promised good jobs, loans with which to build homes and businesses. Russia, starved for goods, was shipping up to $60,000 worth of their machinery and possessions for nothing-many were taking automobiles, refrigerators, tools...
...Papa!" Cripps's strong sense of social responsibility was born & bred in him. He took to heart the injunction of his mother (who died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born...
Simonsen was heard with respect. He is no inexperienced theorist, but a self-made man, a pretty rare article in Brazil. Child of a British-born Santos bank manager and a Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
...experience with divorce settlements (his present wife is No. 5), but he never made a better one. Edie Gwynn's scatterbrained manner, quick bursts of nervous laughter and lavishly indiscriminate endearments ("lambie pie, beautiful cookie") hide a razor-sharp nose for news. She has established herself as the mother confessor for Cinemaland, but it is other people's sins the penitents usually confess. Edith's column is the Reporter's biggest selling point...