Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somber age of Nixon, Nikes, and Maidenform bras, we make very few demands on anyone with the courage to be funny. But even from within this abysmal temperance, we look at the latest issue of Monocle (a magazine of political satire) much like the young man watching his mother-in-law plunge over a cliff in his brand new Cadillac--with mixed emotions...
...Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini to a frenzy of remorse. When he died in Brussels at 65 after an operation for cancer of the throat, his last words to his stepdaughter were: "Remember that your mother is a remarkable woman...
When Jean T., 35, mother of two children, went to the doctor's office in Philadelphia, she had only a few little pimples and wheals on her face, arms and legs, but she complained that she had been driven almost crazy every night for eight weeks by unbearable itching. She could identify the places where the itching started by small black spots. A host of specialists in internal medicine and skin diseases had subjected her to examinations, plus blood-sugar, blood-count, urine and liver tests-not to mention a syphilis test. Unable to find any cause, they dismissed...
Nebraska Farm Boy. These basic facts of genetics were becoming known about the time Geneticist George Beadle was born in 1903. His father ran a small, progressive farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...
...British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill (nee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn), mother of Sir Winston...