Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What mother will wear" as portrayed by a matronly lady followed. "That's very funny" observed Vaughn, noting the judges pencils, "three of us here are left-handed...
...American mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public, which has proved to the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous...
...week, when they began selling what they used to give away, the Boettigers found 25,000 Phoenicians ready to buy the Boettigers' Arizona Times. They hoped soon to add a wire service. Some Southwest publishers muttered that John must have wangled his Swedish newsprint with help from his mother-in-law, the State Department or both; he insisted that he had done it all himself...
Deep in the jungle on the southern fringe of Motilon territory, Holder did find one Indian who lived with an old woman, presumably his mother. His house was of hardwood poles with attic loopholes for last-ditch defense. Around it were three concentric palisades. Holder crawled through small holes in the defenses and interviewed the Indian, who was friendly enough not to shoot...
...Mother Earth is rich enough to nourish every man in freedom," asserted Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology last night at a discussion meeting of the Boston-Cambridge Chapter of the American Association of Scientific Workers in Philips Brooks House...