Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiki grew up on a Burgundy farm with her two sisters and three brothers. "We were six little bastards," explained Kiki in her autobiography, Souvenir. Her careless mother brought her to Paris...
Empty Glory. Lord Alexander would be a "Governor" of Canada in name only. The job had glory but no authority. Socially, he would link Canada to the Mother Country, but politically he would be a nonentity. He would have to present himself, smiling, at all sorts of functions. He would entertain and be entertained. He would have to show interest in every form of public activity, from a cornerstone-laying to a charity bazaar. He would open sessions of Parliament, and sign bills. He would have ample time for sightseeing around the country, and would live in grand style...
...year-old Sadler's Wells company the National Ballet, and take pride in the fact that it owes little to the Russians. Margot Fonteyn is, in a complicated way, English. She was brought up in Shanghai, the daughter of an English tobaccoman named Hookham and a Mexican mother from whom she inherited an exotically high-cheeked face. She joined Sadler's Wells at 14. Two years later Fonteyn's arabesques appealed to the patriotism of the Morning Post: "Here, at last, is an English girl who dances with her soul...
...most states, abortion is justified only to save the life of the mother and, because rubella cannot always be clearly diagnosed, the practice might easily be abused. But few progressive doctors would deny the need for grave measures. Australian statistics had shown that if a mother contracted the disease within the first six weeks of pregnancy, the chance of the fetus being deformed was almost 100%; if in the second six weeks, about 50%. Dr. Bass, while stressing that Australian statistics could not be applied to the rest of the world, reported that in seven cases he had observed recently...
...scholarship that might have made him a doctor. It is sorely pressed when his best friend, hurrying to console him, is killed by a train before his eyes. (Audiences may echo with equal perplexity his plea to God: "Why? Why?") It is destroyed when, despite prayer, his foster-mother dies. With faith gone, it is natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with faith rather inexplicably restored by great-grandfather's death, it comes easy enough for him to realize that...