Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worked Where?" His mother was no help. Once when he was in the hospital and forbidden to drink, he lowered a rope of bandages down to her, and she tied on two bottles of vodka for him. In the name of victory, his bosses put up with everything until last spring he raped a girl named Tamara. Tamara refused to be bribed into silence, and the case wound up in court. There, keeping his face turned away from the public, a ruined Edouard sobbed out his answers: "You worked where?" "In the committee of the Likhachev Auto Plant." "In what...
...half a red sail, but in blue blankets and blue plastic shrouds, and Monsignor George Quinn whispered the prayers for the dead over each of them. Mourned a woman in the crowd: "Three of my own were brought back the same way. May God and his Holy Mother have mercy on their souls...
...mother and Billy Graham think he should have been a minister. He himself thinks perhaps he should have tried to be a missionary, like Albert Schweitzer. Some of television's unseen but much-heard word merchants think he would have made a fine gag writer. Walter Winchell plainly thinks he should have been put into an ablative nose cone on a one-way rocket trip to the moon. Sponsors of late movies think he should have stayed in daytime television, and all across the land, people who like to go to sleep early think he should have stood...
...noted the same phenomenon. It happens in some cases when heavy hormone treatment is given in the second and third months of pregnancy. Though the baby's true sex is determined at conception, its outward appearance can still be altered, through the 16th week, by hormones from the mother's bloodstream. In some of the abnormal cases, nothing need be done-the unusual appearance will fade gradually with growth. In the others, only minor surgery is needed...
Andy Hardy Comes Home (Fryman; MGM) might well bring the handkerchief industry out of the recession all by itself. For the first time since 1946, Mickey Rooney, now a ripening 35, has dusted off the old studio flats, put them all together and spelled not only MOTHER but all the other ingredients of smalltown nostalgia. It promises to be profitable: the first 15 of the hardy Andy episodes were among the most successful series in movie history, grossing $73,850,000 and making Child Star Rooney the nation's top box-office draw...