Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like the mother chapter, the Harvard branch was basically a social organization. Early records describing the iniation ceremony contain much high flown language such as, "here you are to become the brother of unalionable brothers . . . everything transacted within this room is transacted sub ross, and detested is he that discloses...
Apparently, parents cannot win. Non-allergic children, more forthright than the allergic, work off their hostility by temper tantrums and calling their parents names. As five-year-old Andy explained: "I like to scare my mother and hit her. I call her names, too, and I make a whole bunch of noise. I scream so loud she thinks I die and that scares her good...
Like a Crossword Puzzle. From its shocking-pink rate cards to its Mother Goose jingles on racial themes, WNEW reflects the breathless, bouncy personality of its manager, fortyish Tudie Judis. When Watchmaker Arde Bulova and Adman Milton Biow founded WNEW 15 years ago, Tudie was added to the staff as a $15-a-week afterthought. Today, earning more than $60,000 a year, she presides every morning at 9:15 over a highly paid and talented "coffee cabinet," which settles WNEW policy decisions without red tape and interoffice memos. "I love business," Tudie declares with a flutter of gestures...
...Whispering Smith (Paramount) 2) Family Honeymoon (Universal-International) 3) A Letter to Three Wives (20th Century-Fox) 4) Mother Is a Freshman (20th Century-Fox) 5) South of St. Louis (Warner...
Suprugov has forced his first wife to have an abortion for sheer terror at the thought of the fuss a child would make. In his abnormal ache for sympathy, he falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...