Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there on the morning of the 25th, after lighting the tree and addressing the nation by radio on Christmas Eve. In Independence, he would spend most of his first Presidential Christmas as he has done for decades-eating three big dinners: one each with his 93-year-old mother, his mother-in-law, Mrs. David W. Wallace, 83; and his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Truman Noland, 96. But the President would not need any sodium bicarb; he is a moderate eater...
Last summer Sergeant Lucero had his chance to return to the States. He was a hero. Romana and the baby came with him and moved into his mother's house in Albuquerque...
...were happy until August. Then Nano's mother began saying, 'You must forget about Nano. You leave Nano alone.' One day he went away. He said he would be back Tuesday, but he never came back. I asked his mother and she told me to leave Nano alone, I should forget about him. But I cannot forget Nano...
Queen Mary (she hates being called the Queen Mother) is as fond of the flicks as of the footlights. Her taste in films is catholic. This season she has already seen The Seventh Veil, Sailors Do Care (twice), the world premiere of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and a sexy piece called The Wicked Lady, in which the earthiest dialogue had been discreetly toned down for one performance. (Next day Queen Mary alertly dispatched a lady in waiting to see the show and report what she had missed...
Died. Julia Elizabeth Westfall Wolfe, 85, mother of the late, prodigious Novelist Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel ; Of Time and the River) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan, after a gadabout week as Tom's literary executor (one morning she stayed up till three autographing books - TIME, Dec. 10). Driving, dominating, possessive, she was the home to ward which her angel looked. Said he: "All the critics in the world may say it's good but a man's own mother will know...