Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They brought with them only a few possessions: some pandanus leaves to thatch their new houses; their vernacular Bibles, Congregational Hymnals and Mother Hubbards which had been left them by Yankee missionaries, and latent syphilis left by Yankee whalers of the pre-atomic...
...ring, Winston Churchill was collecting an honorary degree at Columbia University. In the very home town of the American language, he was brash enough to decry the "undue reliance upon slang. In its right place slang has its virtues, but let us keep a tight hold of our own mother tongue...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...
...resembled Britain's Queen Mary so closely that when the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, once saw her in Washington, he exclaimed: "Good Lord - there's Mother...
...drinks, clowning out parody first lines of poems, and warming up bedroom scenes in a hack-written best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays her on a cotton bale-she realizes for the first time that the Yankees are not all as bad as she'd thought.") The satire is not intended...