Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today, our Reverend Mother welcomes back...
...case history of shy and mild-mannered Cook is that he was a Mirror copyboy, who lived at 26 Oliver St. with his mother, liked to dance and have fun, got excited about the motion picture Sergeant York, and came into the office on Dec. 8, 1941, and said...
...eastern slopes of Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains a child was born to a young married woman famous in the annals of Tennessee. Fourteen-year-old Eunice Johns, whose marriage had become a national sensation in 1937 (Husband Charlie gave her a doll for a wedding present), became the mother of a 7-lb. girl. The child's name was undisclosed. "I think Eunice wants to name it after my nephew's boy," Charlie told a visiting reporter and photographer. Asked what the boy's name was, Charlie said: "I can't recollect." "See yan branch...
Lena Horne and her four-year-old daughter by an early, unsuccessful marriage occupy a five-room duplex apartment in Hollywood across the street from Humphrey Bogart's. In Manhattan Lena lives obscurely in a small room in Harlem's Theresa Hotel. Every day her aging mother makes the trip from Brooklyn to the Theresa to see that Lena eats properly and wears her rubbers...
Most families, by now, slept in shelters or on staircases or in the halls, to be nearer quick exits. For Rulka's mother that was no way either to live or die. Every night she "brushed her hair for 15 minutes [and] went through all her ordinary ablutions," making, apologetically, one concession: in order not to delay the others if the time should come for haste, she put on her 80-hook corset over her nightgown. Rulka undressed the children "mostly for psychological reasons...