Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing this letter for my mother, who is deaf and whose sight is failing. Doctors told Mom that she may never hear again and it is only a matter of time before her eyes fail her completely...
...going to say a prayer for you and . . . another prayer that you will make a lonely mother's heart light and happy by letting her see Charles soon...
...furlough, and communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...
Rose Wilder Lane, novelist (Let the Hurricane Roar, Free Land), mother of two Army sons, told why she had retreated to her Connecticut farm, given up writing for the duration-of the New Deal. Cried she: "I don't see why I should work to support the Writers' War Board, the OWI and all such New Deal piffle while men are dying and there is work to be done at home...
...19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...