Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that case, I told him, we would also have no meat. In fact, we would have the same menu as mother's for the evening meal...
Last Tuesday, I told my husband that my mother was observing meatless day. She was having macaroni & cheese, deviled eggs, baked potatoes, coffee and dessert...
...That's a wonderful idea," my husband said. "If everyone did that, we wouldn't have rationing. Your mother has the right attitude...
...urgent call for blood donors at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital went out from Mrs. Dallas Hext, Adams House secretary, last night. The donations will be used to replenish the hospital's blood bank, which has been exhausted in transfusions to Mrs. Hext's mother. Mrs. Hext will take calls from those interested and arrange appointments from her office at Adams House...
...Mother Wore Tights"--at least to its non-musical moments--comes in its first thirty seconds. Seated in a rocking chair, as the picture opens, and rocking gently to the accompaniment of some Twentieth Century Fox violinists who play that as yet unforgotten song beginning "M is for the many times I've missed you," an old and gray Betty Grable knits while a nostalgic female voice reveals over the sound-track that "there sits Mother." Fortunately, the picture rapidly retreats into the past, showing Mother when, as the title does not quite suggest, she was a vaudeville performer. This...