Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other causes: in Chicago Mrs. Mae Casey was divorced from a soldier who had taken a second wife in New York, written: "Honey, she got me all hot and bothered." Many a soldier was coming home to find his wife pregnant, or the mother of another man's child...
...Teach Those Guys. . . ." His mother has spent 40 of her 70 years in Canada, speaks little English, has few friends. She is homesick. He and his wife will go with her to Japan. There, he avers: "I'm going to teach those guys some democracy. I don't think I'll be welcome...
...accuser was a Polish woman doctor, Ada Bimko, whose mother, father, sister, brother and son had died in the gas chambers of Oswiecim. The accused were 45 men & women who had worked at Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps, now being tried under a warrant from His Britannic Majesty by a British military court. From a plain wooden witness box in the center of the converted gymnasium which served as courtroom, day after day, witness after witness added to the compendium of horror...
Died. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 78, neuropsychiatrist, editor (Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease), belligerent Freudian, whose testimony in 1907 saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair; after long illness; at Huletts Landing, N.Y. He once told a group of fellow alienists that he believed Irving Berlin's mother must have had a syncopated heartbeat; a surprised confrere said that he had examined her and found...
...Slate. But Young Henry would not go it alone. His mother, who had quietly used her influence in company affairs to end Bennett's reign, would certainly help. It was no secret that she had long opposed many a Bennett policy, particularly on la bor. Now, with the slate swept clean, a new start would be made. To the new board of strategy, Young Henry named...