Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady worker, Pollano had never reported any previous medical ailments, and his mother said that except for over-work, he appeared to be in good physical condition while at home in Lawrence over Christmas vacation. At the time of his death, Pollano was on rank list two, and was preparing for a career in medicine...
...truffled trifles was whetted even before he went to college. As a reward from his grandfather for having been class valedictorian at prep school, he got a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany. He had also developed a talent for enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...
Since it was first formed in 1924 by a handful of party stalwarts in Chicago, the Worker has had a rocky history; its first editor was Party Philosopher J. Louis Engdahl, and its first circulation-drummer, Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor. In 1926, the Worker moved to Manhattan, switched quarters twice before it settled down on the eighth floor of a dingy building on Twelfth Street, two blocks from Union Square. It started printing on used presses bought cheaply from its archenemy, the Wall Street Journal...
Soon after they found they were pregnant, the mothers-to-be were given a lecture on the physiology and hygiene of pregnancy and two classes in how to relax by exercise. Another lecture on labor and delivery and two more exercise classes were given the last month. The last class ended with a tour of the obstetrical di vision, labor and delivery rooms, so the women would know what to expect. Doctors and nurses avoided the words "labor pains," and spoke of "contractions." During delivery, the mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always...
Children cause much of the pulling & hauling between parents of different faiths. Only occasionally do parents split the difference (" 'The oldest [of our children] is Catholic and the youngest Lutheran' "). Sometimes a family turns into a denominational grab bag. Said one girl: "Mother is a member of the United Brethren church ... I have one sister who is Christian Science, one who is Free Methodist, and I am Lutheran.' " When the interviewer asked how this worked out when they were together, she replied: " 'We have to leave off the subject of religion altogether ... I am sure...