Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother's Day. In Hollywood, Mrs. Ethel Wadler, 37, learned that she had become the grandmother of a 7-lb. girl, several hours later also became the mother of a 7-lb. girl...
With both the Crimson and the Lampoon back to a pre-war basis, the most notable lack in the field of undergraduate publications continues to be the Advocate. Although many difficulties have attended the efforts of the mother of all Harvard publications to resume operation, her continued absence, a year and a half after the end of the war, is inexcusable and a disgrace to those responsible...
Some families, situated on the western end of the development, enjoy added warmth from the afternoon sun. "We still have to cut off the bed-rooms occasionally, but we're not complaining," one mother said...
...terrific rhythm." On her piano stands a white porcelain "kitty," where fans stuff as much as $60 a night (in addition to her $150 weekly salary). Beside her is a pitcher of water, to wash down the jiggers of bourbon which customers buy her. As a kind of jolly mother confessor to the depressed spirits in the audience, Julia usually ends up a group of songs with an invitation: "Let's sit down and drink it over...
...White Charger is a novel about Michel, an illegitimate son. Father spends most of his time at sea, mother spends most of hers smoking opium, so Michel soon learns to look after himself. He grows into a talented pianist and crooner -but so indifferent to the life of post-World War I that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with...