Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personable "Mike" Straight went to school at his mother's vast Dartington Hall experimental colony in England, got an economics degree at Cambridge, returned to the U.S. to work as a State Department economist. He later helped Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen ghostwrite New Deal speeches, reported off & on for the New Republic, worked up to be the family corporation's watchdog on the staff...
Beauteous 18-year-old Fortunia burned up the stage in a sizzle of tropical dancing. Daughter of a Haitian father and a blonde Polish mother, Fortunia was brought up in Poland, thrown into a Nazi concentration camp during the war, liberated by Negro G.I.s...
...Glass Menagerie. Touching picture of a troubled, shabby-genteel family with Laurette Taylor superb as the mother (TIME, April...
...enough of them were around last night to make up a scientific cross-section, but one pretty senior said something about a "Rose by any other name" and asked a little archly, "Do you think I'm so bad?" She wasn't. In fact, she was just like mother used to make, only more...
...from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles away from school, put him to work at a shilling a day in a blacking factory. Father and mother Dickens spent this period in a debtors' prison, where they were relatively comfortable, and safe from creditors. When they were released, Mrs. Dickens tried to persuade Charles to go on working in the factory. "I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget," said Dickens, "that...