Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the disease is generally accompanied by epidermophytosis (skin disease) is further confirmation of its psychological nature, for skin diseases are found to be closely concerned with the infant relation with the mother, which relation is also implicit in the oedipal material...
...family together by iron determination and a switch that was put to stinging use whenever any of the boys broke her cardinal rule: "Don't fight among yourselves. You must depend on each other." By mowing lawns, selling papers, and other odd jobs, and paying heed to "Mother," the Marshes made ends meet. In six years Mother Marsh bought a white frame house...
...years later, Alvin, her third son, had a chance to buy a back-alley lumberyard in the neighboring town of Dover, but he could find no one to lend him the money. At the first of many similar family councils around the dining room table, Mother Marsh talked things over with the whole brood, finally decided to mortgage the house to back Alvin. Starting with $1,700, Alvin soon made enough to move out of the alley, set up two branches in other cities...
Within a few years he had added two brick companies to the properties. Remembering the lesson of the switch, Alvin took his brothers in as partners, made Mother a sort of chairman of the board. She ran things anyway. When serious disagreements cropped up, Mother Marsh, said one son, would "give us hell and make it hurt as much as one of the lickings we used...
Otherwise, the sale will not change things much for the Marshes; they will still run the company. For Mother Marsh things will change even less. She still lives in the same white frame house in New Philadelphia. On Christmas Eve this year, she will do what she has always done for her grown-up brood: make them a batch of fudge, serve it around the tree, then lead a chorus of Silent Night before sending them...