Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Ed McKim, still calling Harry Truman "my captain," accompanied his onetime commander on the campaign, kept things running on the Truman train in mother-hen fashion...
There was the mayor's well-run Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, at which Jersey City mothers get the finest treatment at low rates. Recalled Hague: "A kitchen table in a dingy tenement was my delivery room. My mother carried me about on a pillow for three months...
...From his mother, the 20-year-old third wife of his 53-year-old father, Hitler inherited his psychotic blue-green eyes, and probably his tendency to tantrums and his anemic artistic talent. From his father, who had risen by a lifetime's effort from a peasant to a petty customs inspector, Hitler probably inherited a toughness of character that was not so much strength as a persistent stubbornness in overcoming weakness...
...Fuhrerprinzip had no effect on Hitler's father, who wanted his son to become a petty official. Hitler wanted to become an artist. The long struggle between them was ended only by the death of his father. Then his mother sent him to art school. Two years later she died. Young Hitler packed his few clothes in a suitcase and struck out for Vienna...
...face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself a high old time as the cockney tart's earthy, evangelistic mother...