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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas H. West, the missing Freshman's mother, affirmed last night that a tip yesterday, locating West in Montreal, was unproductive when checked. A business friend of the family was boarding a train from Montreal to Boston, she said, when he thought he saw "a boy acting queerly who conformed to West's description...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Search for West Brings Police to Trails in Scollay | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

...West's mother, releasing a fact she hoped would be helpful in finding her son, said he was fond of browsing in art shops, and that he might retain this habit even if suffering from amnesia...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Search for West Brings Police to Trails in Scollay | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

...best fooling and chatter that Wilde, a master of both, ever wrote. It brings to high life a touch of style and more than touch of snob appeal. All this pleasantly gilds its tale of a Woman with a Past who Lady Windermere, not knowing it was her own mother, thought was carrying on with her husband; .and who smirched her reputation a second time to save her daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Died. Princess Ebba Bernadotte, 87, onetime lady-in-waiting at the Swedish Court, morganatic wife of King Gustav's younger brother Oscar Carl August, mother of Swedish Red Cross president Count Folke Bernadotte; in Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...while rummaging with her teen-aged daughter in the attic, Jeanne Grain, a 34-year-old mother, runs across an ancient phonograph record (Rudy Vallee's My Time Is Your Time) and a quaint old snapshot of something called a flagpole sitter. In heaven's name, mother (gasps the bobby-soxer), what was life like back in those funny, faraway times? Most of Margie is mother's flashback, Technicolor-and-music reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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