Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day he suggested that Chaplin might have tampered with his blood. Experts immediately declared such a dodge impossible. Lawyer Irwin resigned. U.S. Attorney Carr continued his prosecution of Chaplin. Asked whether Joan might have to go to work now that she was cut off from Chaplin support, her mother answered: "It could...
...Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations. Another great current interest of President Shuster is the college community center, near Hunter's superb, modernistic building on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue. It is the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the united former town houses of President Roosevelt and his mother. Attractively refurnished in what Dr. Shuster calls "B. Altman Empire" style, the center is used by Hunter's social, hobby and religious groups...
...lags a sentence behind the actors when he goes to the English theater ; his mother is Cantonese but he cannot speak Canton ese well enough to get along with Chinese waiters; and he dares not call on the Chi nese Ambassador in London because "He'd probably expect me to speak Mandarin . . . jeepers...
Many of the Metropolitan's print purchasers know what great art is, but they don't know what they like. The Museum has a story about one little girl who was buying a print for her mother, could not find one that suited. "Would your mother like the yellow sunflowers?" asked the attendant. "No." "Would she like the blue sea? The pretty children?" "No." "Well, what does your mother like?" the attendant demanded. "Men," said the little girl...
Willie in his roguish way Tipped Grandpa on the fire one day. Mother said "My dear that's cruel! But of course it does save fuel...