Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening program, anyhow. The school principal made a talk. Mrs. Tyler of Tomasawaka was introduced as the "Songbird of the North" and sang If I Had My Way. The crowd sang too. They were still there at 11 o'clock when Doc got back to report: "The mother nearly died, the baby nearly died, I nearly died, but we all lived. The baby was blue and I had to dip him in hot and cold water...
Joseph Vitolo Jr., nine years old and small in the underfed fashion of the poor, was the 18th child (nine still living) of an immigrant Italian who makes a little money working on an ash truck, and a fat Italian mother who helps buy food by cutting flowers out of cloth. He went to school, where his teachers considered him bright, and in the evenings he played in a rock-strewn vacant lot. Usually he played with the neighborhood girls because he was too little to get much attention from the older boys...
Ellsworth ("Sonny Boy") Wisecarver, who started making tabloid headlines at 14 when he ran away from home with an unmarried mother of two (TIME, May 15, 1944), did it again at 16-this time with Mrs. Eleanor Deveny, wife of a Japan-based G.I. After the pair were arrested in Oroville, Calif., Mrs. Deveny said: "I would like to take care of Sonny the rest of my life, and not on a motherly basis." Los Angeles Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott was impressed-"If Ellsworth gets into any more of these jams, he will be the most sought-after...
...Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described as a "butterfly with teeth...
tearful series of emotional stresses & strains between a love-starved child, a long-suffering father and a beautiful, misunderstood mother. At almost any point in the plot, most of the complications could have been ironed out easily. But none of the characters will stop looking noble long enough to make a few simple explanations. It's as if everyone were afraid of letting the story down...