Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WANTS LUCAS, LABOR WANTS LUCAS, EVERY SOLDIER, SAILOR AND MARINE WANTS LUCAS, EVERY FATHER AND MOTHER OF A SERVICEMAN WANTS LUCAS...
...Investigator. World War II lifted him from obscurity as a faithful, machine-run Senator who dutifully caught the 7:30 bus to his Senate office and dutifully voted 100% New Deal. (His mother, 91, reads the Congressional Record regularly back in Missouri, and reprimands him by mail if he misses a roll call...
...Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
...Connemara there was no [infant] mortality rate because children never died there. . . . The difference was due to the fact that in Berlin the nurses tidied up the children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged them, mammocked them, kissed them, smacked them, talked baby talk to them or scolded them; in short, maternally massaged them to their hearts' content...
...from the civilized world is the hardy jungle mother who stops by the path a few moments to have her child, then catches up with the rest of the tribe. Many people have also been impressed by Mrs. St. Louis Estes of Hollywood, who used to prove about once a year that civilized women can be just as casual-she rarely devoted more than two hours to confinement...