Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World, The West. In the American tradition, San Francisco had boomed into being-in the stampede which followed the discovery of a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill. The town had grown richer in the raw, exciting days of the Comstock and Mother Lodes. Proud of the independence its riches brought, it had still reached for contact with the eastern U.S., first by stagecoach, then by the pony express, then by the transcontinental railroad...
...Naval Hospital, where her son Johnny was recovering from flu. James, Franklin Jr. and John were in the Pacific. Elliott was in England. She composed a message: "He did his job to the end as he would want you to do. Bless you and all our love-Mother...
Bess Wallace had gone to high school at Independence, Mo., where her family ran a flour mill, lived in quiet prosperity. When she married Harry Truman, they went to live with her widowed mother. In the nation's capital last week Mrs. Truman did the housework in her sunny, five-room apartment, as she had done it back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing...
...greying German mother led her pink-cheeked soldier son by the hand to an American prisoners' camp. "He is my son," she said. "I fetched him from his regiment in the woods. You'll take him? Good. Now I know he won't die. Tonight I shall sleep...
...little girl she helped her mother get breakfast for 20-odd boarders, did the dishes, made the beds and went to school. But she still found time for three miles of swimming every day. Now that she is 19, Ann Curtis is convinced that the business of being a champion swimmer is a full time job in itself. Two months ago she quit her home economics course at the University of California. She felt that she had to concentrate if she wanted to win three of the women's National A.A.U. indoor championships...