Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quadrangle. In Minneapolis, Stanley H. Mueller and his mother took their complaint to divorce court: Stanley's pretty Dutch war bride of an hour had run off with father...
...better. He sold the idea to the principal of Emerson Junior High in West Los Angeles, picked students there to act the part of questioning schoolkids. Two Emerson youngsters -George Enoch, 13, and Josie Kegley, 12 -were "starred." Albert hired three professional actors to play the teacher, father and mother...
...Wakefield, Yorkshire, of American parents) Anne O'Hare grew up in Columbus, Ohio, went to St. Mary of the Springs Academy ('98) and the College of St. Mary of the Springs. In Cleveland she worked as associate editor of the weekly Catholic Universe Bulletin, on which her mother, Poet Teresa O'Hare, was once woman's-page editor...
Hart Crane's mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...
...heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...