Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt...
...garden at Santa Comba. It was there, and through the medium of the flowers he loves, that he met the woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that...
...Mary Bethune knows how to make other people work. She likes to recall that her mother, an emancipated slave, bossed a family of 17 and pulled the purse-strings to boot. In West Africa, Mary's ancestors come from a matriarchal tribe where the women led their men around by the nose. She looks over a job or problem, then commands: "This and this need to be done. You do it." People seem...
...Glass Menagerie. Touching, tragicomic picture of a shabby-genteel family, with Laurette Taylor superb as the mother (TIME, April...
...Mother Church, most young priests felt, is far to the left of her children-and many of her pastors. Sample answers: "Catholics for the most part do not judge . . . unions from a Catholic viewpoint, but rather from the viewpoint of their social status." "Catholics are ignorant of the social teachings of the Church." "The Church has the teaching. More priests should teach it and preach...