Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Nelson Rockefeller [Oct. 6] prompts this letter. When I was a little girl in Cleveland, my mother was calling on Grandpa John D.'s neighbor and, over the back fence, told John D. that my birthday was the same day as his, July 8. With no hesitation, he reached in his pocket and handed my mother the enclosed dime. I now want to return it to Grandson Nelson for his campaign fund, and wish him luck and success...
Concerning 16-year-old Diana Humphries, who shot her younger brother while her parents were out working: When will these working mothers accept the plain fact that what a child wants and needs in the home is simply a mother. And will they ever learn that no house needs carpeting, new furniture and appliances as much as a child needs the presence of a mother whose love, attention and energy will create a lively and happy atmosphere...
...total monthly income from food. In the first days of the plan's operation, service was nearly as bad as ever. Said one doleful Pole: "The only way to get a decent meal in Warsaw is to patronize a private restaurant operated by someone you know-like your mother...
...Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
...Speed Lamkin wrote it, but he appears to have had a good deal of unwitting help. See if you can match up the elements from Comes a Day in Column A below with the plays in which these elements have previously appeared (Column B).* Column A Column B 1. Mother slaves away all day to support her family, even renting out rooms in the big old house, while improvident father boozes. a. The Glass Menagerie 2. Mother clutches about her the fading rags of her social pretensions. b. Picnic 3. Father really loves his children, but he can't communicate...