Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported Mrs. Ernest E. Peterson, mother of three and wife of a utilities employe: "I've only found one family that says they use that much meat...
...Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...
There was nothing about the Eisenhower tradition to suggest this choice. In a dim past the Eisenhowers were Swiss and the name was Eisenhauer. Ike's father and mother met at a small religious college in Kansas, married and raised their brood of boys. Mother Eisenhower still lives in the old white house in Abilene...
...Crochets are a peculiar bunch. They live in a decrepit shack in the bayous, breed children at will, and dream about building a house to go with the beautiful doorstep their oldest son found floating down the river one day. Papa is lazy, shiftless, and--inevitably--lovable. Mother is patient. The children are characters. And that's the play, with bliss in the form of a bunch of lilies inevitably hoisting the Crochets a step nearer heaven...
...Montreal by his wife for $400 a month separate maintenance. Barbara Bennett Downey Randall, sister of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett, lost her fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife but would continue as his manager and gagwriter, said...