Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Pickford and her Navy lieutenant husband, Buddy Rogers, adopted a second child, two-year-old Roxanne. Said mother Mary: "We plan to have at least two more and maybe four when we get out of the Navy...
...normal feminine woman is passive and masochistic (enjoys her own sufferering). Her activity is directed inward, not aggressively outward. If it is intense, she may become the domineering mother, or active in children's homes and nurseries, but she is always conservative, matriarchal...
...jurors take to their task like hens to corn. They arbitrate for women with fickle husbands, wives wanting to know whether to move in with mother, wives with husbands who drink...
Family Troubles. Editor and author of the Atlantic's series is Charles L. Webster's son, Mark Twain's grandnephew, corncob-pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...
Killing Susy. Editor Webster's picture of "Uncle Sam" begins with such early lore as the fun Twain had in letters to his mother. She wrote in a maternal hurry and let her mistakes go uncorrected. Thus when she meant to write, "Kiss Susy [Twain's daughter] for me," it came out "Kill Susy for me." To which Twain replied: "I said to Livy [his wife], 'It is a hard thing to ask of loving parents, but Ma is getting old and her slightest whim must be our law'; so I called in Downey, and Livy...