Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiarize myself with many Communist books and they made sense to me. As I read them I thought of them in terms of my father and the Ku Klux Klan crosses burned in his front yard when he became a member of the Republican National Committee, and of my mother, who died early because of that kind of thing...
That was almost five years ago, and Charles is still waiting. Pro-Leopoldists have accused him again & again of usurping his brother's power. Charles has answered by going into virtual seclusion. Such tasks of royalty as the laying of cornerstones have fallen into the hands of Queen Mother Elisabeth, now 72, an eccentric patron of Communist art exhibits...
...canary, there's nobody here named Tex, and there will be absolutely no cheerfulness." For his premiere, Burrows wound up with a big production number: a Burrows version of Hamlet, adapted for Hollywood ("Hamlet is upset because he doesn't like the second husband his mother married. This Hamlet is a kind of Danish Margaret O'Brien...
...made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...money, he settled for a ham sandwich. In Kansas City, Mo., police were looking for a youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...