Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 1,700 were on their way from Egypt, aboard the Russian ship Pobeda (Victory). Most of them carried the picture of Mother Araxi, without which few fervent Armenians like to undertake journeys...
...Chromographs of "Mair Araxi" (Mother Araxi, named after the Arax River, which cuts across the historic kingdom of Armenia) began appearing after the first major Turkish massacres in 1894. The picture shows a woman (usually weeping) seated atop classic ruins named after Armenia's lost provinces. The broken crown at her feet symbolizes the shattered kingdom. In the background rises Mount Ararat, where Noah's Ark came to rest...
...them. A remote California farm is abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course, on the transfigured Miss Lupino, her violent sweetheart and their hopeless romance...
...Everybody Listeninq? MARCH OF TIME rib-roasts U.S. radio (TIME, Sept. 1). Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...
...Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on the prowl, lightly dandling a hedge wench named Lucy Hanks in some hidden thicket ... had fathered Abraham Lincoln's mother...