Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor General of Moscow issued a communiqué to the people which was a typical mixture of civic concern and religious fervor: "Thank God! All is well in Moscow. . . . Bread prices have not risen and meat prices have gone down. . . . Our protectors are, before the Lord His Holy Mother and all the saints who rest in Moscow...
...Even in those days, the British got around. Long-Arm's mother was an English girl called Gyda, who was the daughter of King Harold. † When it grew too narrow, an outer wall was built around the merchants' quarters, known as Kitai Gorod (or Chinatown), a name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...
...plump Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan, who used to be known as "the Mother of God," became a working woman of a sort. Her job, the first of her life: president of the Japan Silk Thread Association...
...Dick was a jazz pianist in Rio. One night his mother heard him sing. "Get lost with the piano," she advised him. So, says Dick, "I became the Beeng of Braseel." From Rio to the Milton Berle show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC) was an easy jump...
Dress & Doll. Sophie was born in Houston, Tex. Her father, Felix Haas, a tobacco merchant, died when she was four years old and a year later her mother married Dr. John Alexander McLeay, a Canadian surgeon, and the family moved to Atlanta, Ga. (Now 80, Mrs. McLeay lives alone at New York's Hotel Delmonico.) Sophie's first fling at designing was as a child in Atlanta; she made clothes for her dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where...