Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was any celebrating inside the White House that night, there was no official word of it. The best guess: Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes and a few others got together around highballs. But happy Harry Truman had two telephone calls to make: 1) to his 92-year-old mother in Grandview, Mo., to make personal the news she had heard on the radio;* 2) to Eleanor Roosevelt, to say that he wished Franklin Roosevelt could have been in Washington that...
...Passing Years. His bewildered, Polish-born mother, Mrs. Tillie Majczek set out to save him. She knew criminals always wanted money-if she offered a big reward, maybe one would tell on the killer. She began scrubbing floors in office buildings to raise the money. The years passed, and her savings grew slowly...
...wife gave up, divorced him with his troubled consent, married another man. Joe's mother went on. She got help from others in the family; after Joe's brother was drafted, he sent his allotment checks to the reward fund...
...walked into his mother's house. "My life was messed up," he said. "Maybe I can help my boy make something of his. I want my people to be proud of me." Proudly, Tillie Majczek sat in her front room with its bright, ugly rugs, its immaculate curtains, and looked at him, her hands folded...
...classic understatement, "offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence." Post Office Hobbledehoy. For seven years, Trollope was the Post Office's black sheep. Moneylenders trailed him as they had trailed his mother; twice he was led off to jail for debt (but not locked...