Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Magazine [April 28] came with the same mail, and I looked through it mechanically without much understanding. But suddenly I stopped: I saw my father and my mother ... in Koerner's My Parents, and I read of "a painting which spoke the timeless reproach of the dead, of those who would never again turn to face their persecutors...
...Saturday he entertained Lord & Lady Halifax at lunch. At 6:15 a.m. Sunday, he boarded the Sacred Cow for a Mother's Day trip to Grandview, Mo., there to receive some pleasant news to top a pleasant week. After a setback, his 94-year-old mother was recovering satisfactorily from her hip fracture. He returned to Washington the same day, much relieved...
Contrary to common impressions of a flery-eyed demazogue, Gerald V.K. Smith is a mild man with large red hands who occasionally mixes his metaphors and always calls his wife "mother...
...Mother's Day (Sun. 3 p.m., Mutual). A special program featuring Ethel Barrymore, Loretta Young, Ruth Hussey, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell (who are mothers), and Don Ameche, George Murphy, Charles Boyer, Pat O'Brien, Bing Crosby, Margaret O'Brien...
...choosing his victim, say Drs. Cohen & Coffin, the psychotic generally stays close to home: his wife, mother, sister or in-laws are favorites. The murder is often premeditated (one psychotic prepared again & again to kill his girl, but could not bring himself to do it when she was in a happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer...