Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, athletic "Chep" Morrison, who moves in New Orleans' elegant society, was 18 when his father, "Old Chep," a state prosecutor, died in 1929. His mother went to work teaching French at Louisiana State University. Young Chep sold silk stockings to pay his way through the university's law school...
...hair as big as a saucer atop her head. Of her five small children two were burned to death when the Indonesians set fire to their evacuation truck during the street fighting at Surabaya last October. A third child was kidnapped and has not been heard of since. The mother was shot through the ankle...
...only to political breezes, declaims the rationale of the modern South to Howard Morrick, enlightened Yankee author, and defender of Nevvy's naturalness, which alone succeeds in surviving its environment. Brett's intelligence and experience with unprejudiced white folk in European towns leads to actions which arouse in his mother, Bella, the Langdon housekeeper, a fearful wrath at his flaunting the law that "White is White, and Black is Black...
...this mere scientific doodling? The experimenters hoped it might answer an-important genetic question: just how much does a mother-or even a foster mother-influence the fertilized ovum developing in her womb...
...today in the U.S., side by side with a distinctively American genre originated by Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man). Craig Rice is virtually the only woman of this school-with the possible exception of Gypsy Rose Lee, with whom Craig lived one summer in Connecticut while she was writing Mother Finds a Body and Having Wonderful Crime...