Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size crowd quickly collected around the door. I shall never forget the scene. Numerous relatives of all ages were sitting around on the floor, which was covered with matting that was immaculately clean. In the dim light of some sort of lamp it was possible to see the bereaved mother sitting in the middle of the assembly holding a small child. She seemed almost in a stupor. All the relatives leaned forward to see what it was all about. When they realized that I, a foreigner, had brought the widow money, a murmur of astonishment escaped them. . . . The money which...
Author Philip Wylie must have had some mother to inspire such a ridiculous, untimely attack on American mothers (Generation of Vipers, TIME, Jan. 18). God knows that we have enough affairs on the national and international scenes open to criticism (strikes, politics, etc.). Instead of choosing one or more of the innumerable latter, Writer Wylie denounced some of America's proudest possessions: Mom, the common man, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Star-Spangled Banner. . . . After his lusty vulgarity, civilization-pitying Mr. Wylie dares to quote from Christ's text...
...girl's voice: "If you use Morse Code you get "MIGEE" and that's Fibber McGee, and that mean's he's lying and is in trouble." She was absolutely convinced, too. A Radcliffe girl said the WAVES had helped. No beer. Then a mother phoned, said her daughter "Sixteen years old and looks like Veronica Lake"--had got "Am in a mess" by crossing out words, the most common method among unfortunates...
...kinetic Vice President William Benton. Bill Benton is famed in the advertising world as the onetime chairman of Benton & Bowles and the man who said he would make a fortune and quit-and did. He came by his yearning for learning naturally: both his father and his mother were university professors. He sees the Britannica as a logical adjunct to U.C., which has always had a flair for combining scholarship with good publicity...
...dark room, Vag felt gloomy. All he could think of was that ever lengthening list of names: Editors in the Armed Forces. He tried to see ahead. Editors on the Eastern Front, Editors on the Western Front, Editors--. Now who will fill the flowing bowl and, more important, mother the Freshmen, he wondered. Who would discover the WAVES while they were still but ripples in the caves of Comstock? Who could smell out the wiles of the Satevepost soon enough to scoop PM? Who could squeeze out tears so well as Dan, describing the PBH mites waiting wetly for their...