Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull-fiddle in a war-shot orchestra led by Jose Iturbi, hasn't heard from her husband in the South Pacific for months. The other girlish in the orchestra (that old backstage rut) intercept a telegram from the War department and fake a letter from the husband to the mother-to-be. It's all a bit irreverent...
Said Defense Lawyer Comandini: "Were it not for Fascism, which encouraged political crime, Koch might have been an honest man. I have a photograph of him when a boy where he has his head on his mother's lap. That is the Koch I am defending. A lad gone astray under a tyranny which encouraged cruelty...
...Strum, 38, CCFer from Saskatchewan. Since the Liberal Party's Mrs. Cora Casselman, delegate to the San Francisco conference, and Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Labor Progressive, were beaten, Mrs. Strum will be the only woman in the new House of Commons. She is the wife of a Saskatchewan farmer, mother of a 14-year-old daughter. A good campaigner, she defeated popular Ernest Edward Perley, Progressive Conservative incumbent, who was a three-time winner, and National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton...
Died. Lady Sybil Eden, 78, mother of Anthony; in Windlestone, England. Of her son's ups-& -downs as British Foreign Secretary, she once remarked: "I often feel like bubbling over with pride, and at times like bursting into tears." Died. Amelie Rives (Princess Trou-betzkoy), 81, who, as a golden-haired Southern beauty in her twenties, scandal ized readers in the '80s and '90s with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead; after long illness; in Charlottesville...
Those Endearing Young Charms (RKO-Radio) confronts Robert Young, an Air Forces wolf on furlough in New York, with Laraine Day, an impressionable girl. She lives with a mother (Ann Harding) whose memories of her own blighted romance make her at first fear for her daughter, then urge her to go ahead and take her chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends...