Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...P.V.D.E. men overheard and hustled the sickly lad to court. The trial was speedy, the sentence light by Lisbon standards: 25 days in jail and 100 escudos ($4) fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...
Howard Lindsay, co-dramatizer of Life with Father, made a touching contribution to a New York Times symposium of filial memories on Father's Day. "Mother spent ten years trying to get the truth out of Father," recalled Lindsay, "then gave up and left...
...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...
...Englanders in the 1820s and '30s who grew up with a similar inheritance. The key is hidden somewhere in the peculiarities of Hawthorne's boyhood or in those of his years of self-imposed solitude in Salem. As a child, Hawthorne was temporarily crippled. His widowed mother was a virtual recluse and patently neurotic. At 21 he returned from Bowdoin College to Salem and himself developed into a kind of neurotic recluse. In his "haunted chamber" in Salem he sat writing and rewriting his early stories and his first, abortive novel, Fanshawe...
Head Start. Born in Luzon in 1878 to a Tagalog father and a mestizo, (mixed Spanish-Tagalog) mother, he had something of a head start-both his parents were schoolteachers. Their salary was ample: $6 a month each. Their home was a typical thatched nipa hut on stilts, with chickens scratching and hogs grunting in the mud beneath the ladder leading up to the door. Manila in those days was a full week's journey away, over what are still wild, jungle-covered mountains...