Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made her first splash six years ago when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson; 4 to 5, French lesson; 5 to 6, another voice lesson. At 6 Patrice is entitled to dinner. Her favorite dish: pickled herring with an onion...
...payroll soared from 7,589 employes in 1939 to 156,000 as of last week-a cross section of people that includes Betty Grable's sister, Carole Landis' mother, famed Dancer Ruth St. Denis. The weekly payroll is $7,300,000 in the $250,000,000 worth of plants...
Sued for Divorce. Richard Wesley Woolworth, 45, wealthy, sports-loving nephew of 5-&-10-cent-store founder Frank Winfield Woolworth, son of onetime board chairman Charles Sumner Woolworth; by Margaret Brady Woolworth, mother of his three children, 17, 15 and 8; in Tampa...
...When little Serapia was only three years old, she caught the disease called smallpox. . . . The poor child died in her mother's arms." Soon the grieving Mrs. Gomez was visited by a little bird that turned out to be Serapia. Said Serapia "I went to Heaven. Saint Peter told me that God was very worried because nobody should die of smallpox. He asked me if we had a doctor in the village. I told him that we had none. But not very far away in Tingo Maria there was a new hospital and they had a doctor...
Hypnotic Spell. Most of Indigo's 372 pages are given over to the complicated feud of Gisele's mother, the bitter widow of a French indigo planter, and the English colony of Amritpore-a war that reaches into the past (since Gisele's father had been the lover of the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Englishwoman who dominated the colony), and into the future (since Gisele's brother Jacques is befriended and made over by the English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that...