Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rosalia Mercurio Di Maqgio, 66, plump, Italian-born mother of Baseballers Joe, Vince and Dominic Di Maggio, two other sons, four daughters, passed her naturalization test in San Francisco's Superior Court with flying colors, became a U.S. citizen. Papa Joseph Di Maggio Sr., 72, flunked his, was told he could try again...
...When the Duke of Windsor, visiting Washington as the Prince of Wales, was ushered "into her presence, he exclaimed: "Good Lord?there's Mother...
...production officials and Jap Navymen, whose yards were choked with ships under repair, Mother Earth was singing no lullaby. It was admitted that homes and buildings in the Tokyo-Yokohama region were ruined by landslides, that factories along the 250-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka were damaged...
...sung the taxing lead role of Leonora in Trovatore. Twenty-four hours before curtain time, Manager Edward Johnson offered her the chance. She spent the next morning fitting costumes. Then, in an hour and a half, she learned the stage business. At 4:30 in the afternoon her foresighted mother cooked her a mammoth steak dinner...
...noting. . . . Production remained at a fairly steady level of three litters a year . . . averaging 2% kittens a litter. . . . This is regarded as a war effort far exceeding that of. any other belligerent cat in the Allied camp and may be favorably compared to the output of Katinka Pusskin, champion mother cat of Russia and Heroine of the Soviet Union...