Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, a sentimental man, enjoyed the holidays. He ate turkey, went out on the front porch of the "little White House" at Independence, Mo. to greet the carolers, bought his 93-year-old mother "the usual sort of thing a fellow buys." He granted full pardons to all the several thousand ex-convicts who served honorably in World War II's Army and Navy. Once he had the rare luxury of sleeping late-for him: until...
...alcove of his book-lined study sat the Prime Minister. There was a large bouquet of red roses in front of him. Two feet away, where Mr. King could see it with the slightest turn of his head, hung a portrait of the Prime Minister's mother in a pose resembling Whistler's mother. The picture was illuminated from below by a table lamp...
...Canada's colonial subservience to the "old country" was all but gone. George VI was, theoretically, still King of Canada, and would remain so. But the ties that long bound the Dominion to Mother England's apron had frayed and snapped, one by one. Of the legal strings, only one remained: in civil lawsuits, Britain's Privy Council is still Canada's court of final appeal. And elimination of that last bond was already in process...
...work up any sustained sympathy for the uptight characters. Audiences will probably side with the murderess, who spends all of the early reels trying to manage five minutes alone with her husband. Just as it looks possible, she picks up a pair of binoculars and sees his brother, her mother, her adopted cousin and the caretaker approaching by motorboat...
They landed long after the President had hurried off to see his mother at Grandview. It was midnight before they caught up with him. It had been a wearing, tedious, all-but-newsless...