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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is my problem. I'm the mother, sister, companion, nursemaid, sparring partner and wife of a jazz clarinet. Should I continue to live with this sink of iniquity and listen to his lousy rendition of Baby, Won't You Please etc. or should I divorce him, marry a shoe salesman or magazine writer, and listen to Sweet Adeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...your short article on grand opera in New Orleans (TIME, July 12) ... your correspondent recounts an anecdote that "during one performance of Faust, an expectant mother is said to have turned to her husband, remarking: 'Pierre, I do not think I can wait for the ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Family. In South Bend, Ind., widower Dick Hoslinger paved his way toward the armed forces by having his mother adopt his daughter, who became her dependent and his sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...effect we must now acquires skirts we are to be mothers. Your broad will consist of numerous orphans placed under your wing by Uncle Sam. He ha picked these muscular, tattooed and wordly kids (anywhere from 18-50) from the far corners of the U.S. They have left the fire side, apron strings, and all feminine sublimity; you are to be their new mother. What sort of a mother will you be? How will you provide...

Author: By So & Do, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...just seems that a mother can't sit still for a minute, and we are no exception to the rule. Why, the boys must be clothed. Surely they are not running around nudo; after all, they had some thing on when they came from hours Pop. it seems, wants them all dressed alike...

Author: By So & Do, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

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