Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loyal Opposition had a few gasps of protest left in it before Labor's guillotine (TIME, March 17) chopped off the usual procedure of full discussion in the Mother of Parliaments. Tory Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe used the last few seconds before the deadline to tick off a scathing objection to "a sorry parody of legislative efforts." Then the chopper fell. Grey-wigged Speaker Colonel Clifton Brown cut in; there would be no further debate. The Government's 92 amendments would never even be discussed...
Hollywood stayed right in its groove. Rita Hay worth took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail...
Awarded to Marlene Dietrich (mother of 22-year-old Actress Maria Manton), to Lana Turner (mother of three-year-old Cheryl), and to Belle Taylor Tierney (mother of Actress Gene, 26, and Sister Pat): places on a list of "the most glamorous mothers in the U.S." The judges: 80 obliging magazine illustrators...
...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-loss. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with each, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...