Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same papers Bishop Manning sent a sizzling letter denouncing Canterbury's action as "highly improper . . . ecclesiastical intrusion." British-born Bishop Manning pointed out that Canterbury has not a whit of authority in the Episcopal Church, whose members merely honor him as head of "our mother church, the historic Catholic and Apostolic Church of England." Canterbury's letter was doubly presumptuous, Manning declared, since the Episcopal Church's own head, Presiding Bishop Tucker, "has not felt it right to express himself publicly on this controversial question...
Significance. As group commanders the 's graduates may be able to build the bridges between theory and reality that too often have been missing in the burgeoning Air Forces' training system. Said one of the new group commanders last week: "When I got back and told my mother what we are up against in this war she was speechless. She had been reading the papers and she really thought we had been knocking hell out of a bunch of pushovers...
Throughout the world thousands have now become accustomed to tuning in Front-Line Family five days a week to check up on the Robinson family. They are Yorkshire-tongued Father Robinson, airplane parts maker; Scots-voiced Mother Robinson, United Services Clubwoman; Son Andy, fighter pilot; Son Dick, of the National Fire Service; Daughter Kay, of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service...
Domestic Munichman. Jim Hurd was a poor relation of the Boston Leveretts. He had pride of poverty, a New England conscience, considerable talent, a gauche attractiveness to women, a fundamental moral feebleness. He was always deeply attached to his mother...
...with the cartoons, the picture is divided into four sequences. The first concerns tourist Donald Duck, camera in hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American cowboy. The final and most sparkling sequence...