Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare. Stocky, bespectacled Dr. Frank Randall Teachenor, one of the most brilliant neurological surgeons in the Midwest, had never before performed it. He warned Sylva that although it might help her, it might make her worse or even cause her death. Sylva decided to take the chance. Her mother tried to dissuade her, but the girl persisted in her determination...
...more baffling case of inversion than any previously discovered - a schoolboy who writes with his left hand, not only backwards but also upside down. When he was in the first grade in Chicago's Fulton Elementary School, Frank Balek, now eleven, the son of a left-handed mother, puzzled his teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around and was writing rapidly by his own method. Starting in the lower...
...line and composition were personal, quaint, candidly visionary. He produced nearly 500 oil paintings in ten years, turned out four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London's definitive exhibition took three years to arrange with the help of Artist Wood's mother, to whom he wrote regularly, describing his work. Private lenders included Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Lady Cunard, Actor John Gielgud, Writer A. J. Cronin, and D. H. Lawrence's friend, Lady Ottoline Morrell...
...recent film British Actress Grade Fields, who makes a reputed $750,000 a year, sang "You've Got to Smile When You Say Goodby" from the top deck of a departing liner. Recently, as her father and mother sailed from Southampton on the Berengaria, Gracie standing on the dock suddenly burst into "You've Got to Smile When You Say Good-by." The astonished crowd around her, liking Gracie much more than they did the proprieties, clamored for an encore. Gracie obliged: "Little Old Lady," for her mother...
...close watch kept on planes at airports makes unauthorized free rides next to impossible. One night last week in Indianapolis, 23-year-old John Henry Hagaman, after bumming his way by hitchhiking and rod-riding over most of North America, thought he would try his luck by air. His mother was in flood-stricken Van Nuys, Calif, and he wanted to get home in a hurry. Slipping aboard a T. W. A. transport during a routine, 20-minute halt, he locked himself in the toilet. Aloft a few minutes later, the disheveled young man appeared before 17 startled passengers...