Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole family-mother and two sons-shared Pappy's rigorous self-control. When Jimmy Jr. was in his early teens, he had his father's handiness with his fists. Before he was to attend a decorous dance in St. Louis, Jimmy Sr. warned him to keep his fists in his pockets. Jimmy Jr. came home with a look of guilt on his face. Without a word, Jimmy Sr. took him into a bedroom and walloped him. When his licking was over, Jimmy Jr. burst out: "Damn it, Pappy, the dance isn't until next Saturday...
...When we first got back to Washington, we got in early on the train and came out here. When General Doolittle didn't find us at the station, he jumped into a cab and came on out to see us all. When Dad and Mother came to Washington to see me, Dad was anxious to meet Jimmy. I knew he was busy, but I called his office at the War Department and asked if my father could come down there to see him. Hell, he came out here to meet them...
When Shirley and her mother went to Hollywood two months ago, the child ventriloquist had eight months of weekly radio behind her. A shy, quiet little girl, she used her brash puppet to say the things she could not bring herself to say. Eddie Cantor hired her ($100 weekly) the first time he heard...
...projects-he wants to doctor everybody. Bursting with health himself, Kaiser carries a medicine kit wherever he goes to "look after my folks," often stops in his plants and shipyards to offer pills to gravel-shovelers and executives. This concern goes back to his boyhood: Henry Kaiser believes his mother died too young for lack of medical care...
Author Seabrook was raised in Maryland's spooky Pennsylvania Dutch country. Whenever his domineering mother was out of his sight, William moped. One day his half-crazy grandmother (with the help of a delightful little bottle) led the sad child into a clearing in a "new, strange wood." There he saw "beautiful bright-plumaged roosters ... as tall as houses . . . their legs . . . like the pillars of cathedral aisles." William's only happiness was "escape into that other dreamworld" until in a moralistic moment Grandfather Seabrook smashed Grandmother's laudanum bottle. It was too late to smash the hypnotic...