Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fair Exchange. In Milton, Mass., the Rev. Vivian Pomeroy proposed an addition to the marriage ceremony: as the bride's father gives away his daughter, let the groom's mother give away...
Spare the Rods. In Salem, Mass., a young mother asked to check her sleeping baby and carriage in a railway baggage car, confided, "I hate to spoil him so young by letting him ride in a Pullman." A Summer's Tail. In Atlanta, a police man held up traffic for what he thought was a funeral procession, let 18 cars pass, all driven by women, then found they were all tailing a heavily loaded meat truck...
...production is particularly distinguished for its banal and at the same time boring dialogue. When a 30-year-old ghost dressed in the uniform of a Captain, AAF, falls at his mother's knees and cries "Mummy!", the time has come for a regeneration of something...
...Both my father and my mother were uneducated, and it was with great difficulty that they wrote their names. Both were able to read, and it was in reading that my mother found her greatest pleasure...
...never heard a song upon the lips of my mother. I never even heard her hum a tune. . . . She was a confusing mixture of sternness, gentleness, and strength of will and purpose. She had borne twelve children, and had buried three of them. When the harvest required it, she had taken her place in the field. She had planted and tended the vegetable garden. She had spun the cloth, and had made the clothes which my father, my sisters . . . and I wore...