Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, instead of going to church ("it creates such a disturbance"), he stayed home and read the Sunday papers. Then he drove back to Grandview, and at the little airport said goodbye to his family. Reaching up to kiss him, his mother got in a final word: "You be good, but be game, too." The hometown weekend was over...
...last week there was one piece in the paper which made Boss Crump's bushy eyebrows rise. It was a letter to the editor of the Press-Scimitar, written by Wisconsin-born Mrs. Lee Richardson, wife of a railroad worker, mother of four sons, a Memphian for eight years. Wrote House-wife-Citizen Richardson : "I am not satisfied here, have never been. Those who do not approve of conditions here are advised to keep their mouths shut. From where I stand it seems that those who kept their mouths shut are to blame for the shameful conditions here...
Ilka Chase, professional wit and author (In Bed We Cry), advised women to marry younger men, explained: "Men, poor things, age so quickly after they're married. . . . The older wife is the ideal combination of what every boy craves: she's mother-wife-mistress, the 3-in-1 bargain package...
...Musical Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
Last week, after a year's work, Biddle's frescoes were finished. They showed, according to Biddle, the fertility of peace (a farmer with oxen, a mother with child) v. the horror of war (symbolized by skeletons and Franklin Roosevelt's quotation, "I hate war"). Although the murals were now open for inspection by his Mexican peers, Orozco had "no time" to see them, and Fellow Muralist Diego Rivera was "too busy" painting some of his own in the National Palace (just across the street) to take a look. Biddle felt sure that an attack...