Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, if the father of Pablo Picasso was, as you report, Blasco Ruiz and his mother's name was Maria Picasso, then his name would have been Pablo Ruiz y Picasso which will explain why he is known by his mother's name. Now, if he had been born out of wedlock, his name would have been Pablo Picasso, and his father's name would not have appeared in his name...
...have heard that Picasso selected his mother's name instead of his father's name because Picasso was more musical than Ruiz...
...Thirds. It was a choppy, diffuse oration, composed by many minds (see p. 49), but it got right down to the job it had to do. After planting himself firmly in Iowa ("I was born and raised here. My father and mother spent their lives here"), Harry Hopkins gave his own picture of his new job. Running WPA he had served the nation's bottom third. Now he served "the two-thirds of the population earning their living by what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients...
...tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height of something is that Doctor Randall, formerly professor of medicine at Columbia University, is joining Red Norvo's band at the Raymor to take over the clarinet chair...
...going to marry Dr. Gregg, a newcomer to the sleepy Southern town which is becoming an industrial centre without the old inhabitants knowing it. The time is 1909. The night before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when the time comes Jennie goes to the altar, just as everyone knew she would...