Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politician and Mystic. In his study at Laurier House the picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
...spotted a Japanese group-apparently father, mother and three children-out on the rocks, preparing to drown themselves, but evidently weakening in their decision. The Jap sniper took aim. He drilled the man from behind, dropping him into the sea. The second bullet hit the woman. She dragged herself about 30 ft. along the rocks. Then she floated out in a stain of blood. The sniper would have shot the children, but a Japanese woman ran across and carried them out of range. The sniper walked defiantly out of his cave, and crumpled under a hundred marine bullets...
Gene Tierney, blue-eyed cinemactress and mother of a ten-months-old daughter, Daria (her husband is Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, peacetime Hollywood dress designer), confided to New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson that she was "crazy about strong smells," added "I like to smell babies. Now there's a smell that ought to be bottled...
Emergency Call. Almost everything in handsome, blond, 32-year-old James Wesley McClain's early life fitted him to be Doctor I. Q. His father was a voice teacher in Louisville, Ky. His mother was a church organist. At Southern Methodist University, McClain majored in English and public speaking, made the varsity debating team. This led to the Dallas Little Theatre, then to an announcer's job for Station WFAA, Dallas. In 1940 Chicago's Grant Advertising Agency made him director of all its radio activities. A year later, in an emergency, he stepped into the agency...
...Twig Is Bent. A Japanese baby's toilet training begins at four months, and is likely to be the most painful experience of his life. He is held out over the balcony or road at frequent intervals. For every lapse, he is ferociously punished-by his mother's scoldings (in a tone of horror and disgust), by shaking, sometimes by beating. Training is made more difficult by the fact that Japanese babies are habitually overfed (which Gorer thinks may account for Japanese grownups' lack of interest in food and ability to get along on small rations). Nonetheless...