Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another dean, when told that faculty members reside in the Harvard houses, drew an analogy with the house-mother system and commented that "I wouldn't want a mom in every frat...
...Kenya, informing him that his daughter is going to marry. He rushes to the scene, snows the long time unseen daughter, piques the ex-wife, gripes the stepfather and disgruntles the groom. He wants to return to the Europe of his youth with his daughter in her mother's place just to prove he's as lively as he ever...
...bakery, she sued Budd Howard, operator of the Denver studio. The court ordered him to give back $15,890, the value of her unused lessons-but only because of a technicality. The contract she had signed was with Arthur Murray, Inc., a New York enterprise, the Manhattan mother studio of Arthur Murray and Kathryn, his wife. Although Murray picks all the local studio managers, who operate under a franchise, and takes 10% of their gross receipts, each studio is a separate entity for legal liability purposes...
...casual acquaintance of Papa's, a gambling-house shill, lures him to the roulette table, and the cops raid the joint. Poor Papa is booked at the station, and the boy must run home to fetch his identification card. From the sight of his mother in the midst of a difficult accouchement, the notion of the pushcart peddler is banished. All that remains for the boy to do is get Mama to the hospital, spring Papa from the jug, and reunite the whole gang in time for the birth of baby sister...
...Tibetan, yab is an honorific for father and yum for mother, signifying the spiritual idea of cosmic polarity much as the principles of yang and yin do in Chinese thought...