Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gatherings in North Carolina, she sings Old English, Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
...worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest March on record...
...leaders of North America's 350,000 Russian Orthodox Church members reached a firm and weighty decision: they would not reunite with the mother church in Russia. Reason: the mother church would not back down on its demand for a pledge of loyalty to the Soviet Government...
Eddie's father (Charles Bickford) loved and believed in machines as his son did. Eddie's mother (Mary Phillips) felt that machines were "against God and nature." This semi-mystical debate on the virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...
...Century-Fox), a study in the farcical consequences of bigamy, examines the temptations which beset a none-too-bright barge captain (William Bendix) at each end of the Brooklyn-Utica haul. In Brooklyn, Captain Quilligan falls for a barmaid (Joan Blondell) who laughs and sings just like his sainted mother (rest her soul). In Utica, he is hopelessly enmeshed by a homebody (Mary Treen) whose cooking is more wonderful than anything the captain has tasted in the ten years since mother passed on (rest her soul...