Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Blaikie, had asked Franklin to run (under New York law a Congressman need not be a resident of the district he represents.) Young (34), husky (6 ft. 4 in., 200 Ibs.) Franklin quickly accepted, thereby becoming the first of the four Roosevelt boys to seek public office. His mother heard the news in Chicago, and confided to readers of "My Day": "I was a little appalled by this announcement." Besides his glamorous name, young Franklin had a good Navy record as a destroyer officer (Silver Star, Legion of Merit), and a brief career as spear-carrier in New Dealing...
...cops looked over the child in the tattered dresses and rumbled: "What's your name, little girl?" Piped the child: "I'm not a little girl. I'm a boy." His name, he said, was Gerald. Later, from clues he gave them, they found his mother, Mrs. Anna Sullivan, 45, in her third-floor apartment over on Terry Street...
Locked In. Last week all Boston knew the story of Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide from the world. In the dingy Roxbury Crossing police station, 13-year-old Gerald, an otherworldly child with the flabby frame of a sickly girl, told his story. His mother had kept him locked in a bare, tiny, lightless room as far back as he could remember. She had brought him food on a tray, but he was forever hungry. Now & then she gave him a few marbles or a comic book...
...were leaves and birds I knew it was summer. Then when it snowed and the trees got leaves again, I knew it was a year." The more assured he was that at last he was among people who wanted to help him, the more glibly Gerald talked. When his mother was brought before him, he shrank from her. Cried he: "I'll never love her again...
...other stories are not outstanding. "Prima Donna," which concerns a bride's mother after her daughter's wedding, suffers from forced description and unconvincing characters, who appear not as persons but only names on a page. The meaning of Mrs. Laccy's rummaging through her daughter's packed wardrobe, apparently the crucial incident in the story, is not clear. If the mother is comparing her own marriage with that of her daughter, then the point should be made more forcefully...