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Word: mothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few weeks the members of the dining hall have been trying to reach an agreement on the privilege of bringing women guests. The issue came to a climax when there was objection to the presence of one of the members mother as a guest in the dining hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover Hall Coop Gets Lady Guests | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

...physical build Pablo resembled the small, robust, dark-skinned mother whose name he later took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...dines at the same little restaurant on the same pasty food, will then take a cafe-creme at the Cafe de Flore, almost always with the same group. His wit, which has made him feared by sycophants, is famous and often malicious. Examples: (of a young girl artist) "Her mother drinks, her father drinks, and it is she who has the red nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this as one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Nassau with her daughter, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Cafe Society's No. 1 glamor girl, Mrs. Frederic Watriss declared: "Certainly Brenda, likes being popular. So do I. We all love it. There is no problem to being the mother of a popular deb. It is the mothers of the others I'm sorry for. It must be awful to be the mother of a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Powell, takes itself seriously every now and then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when the leading men sit down at a piano and compose "Oh What A Horse Was Charlie" to the tune of "Mother Machree." On the whole, the program is entertaining,--more than the marquee would indicate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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