Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree that a person of 42 is still young, but our neighbor's daughter of 18 views such age with different eyes. Recently this girl's mother was telling her of a friend of 42 who had just had a serious operation, whereupon the girl remarked: "It doesn't particularly matter, mother, if she doesn't pull through, she's so old anyway...
...Duke of Windsor, back in England for the first time since 1940, got an oldtime Glamor Boy's welcome as crowds of women (mostly middleaged) fought for a peek into his auto. The Duke went straight to his mother, Queen Mary, whom he had not seen for nine years; that night he dined with her, his brother the King and his sister the Princess Royal. Next day he visited the King for a 2½-hour heart-to-heart. Getting back in stride, he unlimbered his golf clubs, and made a tour of East End bombed areas...
Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary...
...Poking into a new (prefabricated) house, the Duke and his mother proceeded room by room to a bedroom where a man was sleeping. The man's wife woke him, told him who was calling. "Get on with you," said James Kirby, 47, gas-company employe, and promptly went back to sleep. Later on he explained: "I am a man who eats hearty and sleeps hearty. I'd had a good dinner. Lamb...
...rest of the 45-minute session was equally ladyfingerish. Sample : Could Miss Odum tell the press what courses Margaret Truman studies at George Washington University? No, she didn't know. Would Margaret go to teas and lunches with her mother? Maybe, but "we try to leave her as much time as possible for her school work." Does Mike, the Truman's Irish setter, live in the White House as Fala did? No, outside...