Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy. For months, a subtle campaign has been developing in the Allied and neutral press, seeking to whitewash the young King and the discredited Rumanian royal family. Twice in recent weeks Mihai has called in Mahiu, presumably to fix up an approach to Britain. Both he and Queen Mother Helen have taken pains to visit U.S. airmen who have been forced down and sumptuously "imprisoned" in Rumania's mountains...
...Biology and Pathology which, until the Nazis got there, was one of the best equipped laboratories in the world. Since 1930 he has been president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. When the Germans came, he moved from Kiev (he was born in jail there in 1881, while his mother was a political prisoner) to Ufa in the Urals. This month he will move back. Because of his serum, which he calls "anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum" and mercifully abbreviates to ACS, the professor was decorated last week with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, received...
Mouse as Man. Those plates, chief foundation of Dore's fame, pictured a mythology already "sanctioned in literature." They also expressed some of the undertows of unsanctioned emotion-no less than do the dream-found images of modern surrealism. Over-attached to his mother, Gustave Dore had a thousand half-faced adult fears to put at the disposal of his talent for the macabre...
...much (an asset unmistakable in a later-year impression of a London crowd, which echoed the same theme of hellishly snarled humanity). In the early schoolroom satire there is also more than a suggestion of how little the artist was ever able to let go of his mother. When she died in 1881, Dore wrote to a friend: "I am without force . . . overpowered by ... fear of the future." The future was only two years...
...ruined," cried Alexandre Dumas' mother just before his birth. But he had fair skin and hair (which later became kinky), blue eyes. As a boy he had a hard time learning the alphabet, but he wrote beautiful longhand. Said his mother: "Every idiot can write well...