Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alone in his dirty, untended Brooklyn apartment, Emory wrote his own mother in North Carolina: "I expect to be dead within a few hours ... All my love." Then he left to meet Norma and have it out with her and her lover at Whittaker's apartment. He took along a pistol...
Long about ten years ago, Hollywood historians dug into the exploits of the notorious James boys (of St. Joe, not Cambridge) and found enough material for two full-length movies. The mother lode has run out, though, and the golden moments in "I Shot Jesse James" are not worth anywhere near the 85 cents it costs to assay them...
...plumber, Vera knew five songs, Peggy O'Neil and K-K-K-Katy among them, before she was three. At seven, she was singing, in frills and bows, for Masonic dinners and charity benefits. "A straight-faced kid, couldn't get her to smile," says her dressmaker-mother, who always went along. At school, "they thought I had a terrible voice," says Vera, "but they always put me up in front because I opened my mouth so nice and wide...
...after their appointment, the trustees had a look at the rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...
Minor diseases of a mother during pregnancy, difficult birth, and an unsatisfactory first two days of life may lower a child's intelligence, said Dr. Theodore Ingalls, assistant professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health...