Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about my mother dear...
...soldier, standing ankle-deep in Chungking mud, lit a cigaret with a Chinese dollar and laughed. A patient child cut a doll from currency and its mother said nothing. A ricksha coolie, squatting beside the road, thumbed through a fat roll again & again. He waved away a customer, saying that he had enough...
...order catalogues. The day she first heard a radio in the general store in Lamb, she chose her career. "I set right down there in the store and I cried," she recalls, "and I told the folks that I was a-goin' to git on the radio. My mother she upped and whopped...
Immortal Charmer. Leonardo's life, with its lustrous and peculiar glints through the obscurities of history, will always have a fascination comparable to his work. He was born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
...Europeans themselves want it? The Norwegians have already indicated their desire to link their postwar destinies with those of Britain. The Dutch presumably hope to regain their empire. France is an African power as well as a European power. In general, the saltwater peoples have divisive ideas about "Mother Europe." Nor do the landlocked countries of eastern Europe dare come out for the idea of federation. The Czecho-Slovak Government in Exile has already made its peace with Stalin and turned thumbs down on a union with Poland. It looks as if Europe were going to remain fragmented, or merely...