Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After breakfast men drifted together in the corner of the wardroom. One of them softly began to sing. Shyly others cleared their throats and chimed in. As the singing finally died down, one officer smiled a funny smile and broke into Just Before the Battle, Mother...
...News's files anything about the Lonergans, nightclub pressagents were called, reporters were hustled to addresses where the Lonergans had formerly lived. The files were finecombed again, this time yielded one society item filed under "Lanergan."* From it the Newsmen got the name of Patricia's mother, went to work...
Posing as cigaret-company representatives, they said they wanted to send each man a carton as a gift. A wife, a mother, and a girl friend quickly supplied the information that their men had just sailed on a transport. One woman cheerily volunteered its destination...
...Malta now serves as a rock-ribbed mother ship for the invasion of Italy...
Esquire is the kind of magazine in which a mother says, "Have a good time at the party and be a good girl," and her daughter replies: "Make up your mind." In Washington last week the Post Office Department began a hearing to determine: 1) whether Esquire's jokes and its "Varga Girl" drawings are obscene (TIME, Oct.11; 2) whether second-class mail privileges should be denied to the widely read (circ. 695,285), 50? smoking-room slick...