Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter came to a Kirk Bramwith mother from her son, far from home with the British Eighth Army. Said he: "When I close my eyes I can see the church and the river. I hope it looks just the same...
Burleigh's mother put herself through college, expecting to become a school teacher. Turned down because of her color, she became the housemaid of a wealthy Erie music lover. Between jobs as a houseboy, newsboy, lamplighter, etc., young Harry attended Erie concerts...
Johnny and Grover long ago learned to regard "Magnin" as a highly profitable name. Their mentor was their mother, peddler Isaac Magnin's wife Mary Ann, who founded the business with her own handiwork (children's and bridal clothes) in 1876, and took an intense matriarchal interest in it until she died at 95 last December...
...essence, so intensely bitter. On his first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
...Time (Warners) earnestly dramatizes the collision between a resistible force (liberalism) and a movable object (feudalism). The place: Poland, just before World War II. When Polish Aristocrat Paul Henreid tells his family he intends to marry British Commoner Ida Lupino, his mother drop's and breaks a cherished teacup. They marry anyhow, and by the time the Nazis invade Poland the wife has turned her idle husband into a man, his estate into a solvent farm, his ancestral home into a one-night playroom for the peasants-who are delighted to have become sharecroppers. A reactionary uncle...