Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother, do you sit up so late? You cry so much, and look so white-Mother, do not cry. Is it because Father does not come home to bring us bread? We shall find Father...
...gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool them. When I was a player, Greasy Neale tried to tell us three weeks running to go out and win the game for his dying mother. And there she was every game, sittin' up in the stands...
...many loose ends that the string can sometimes hardly be seen for the knots. For a good deal of the way, The Mansion recapitulates the first two books. Flem's dirty deals,Wife Eula's electric sexiness, Daughter Linda's womanly inheritance from her mother, nice Lawyer Stevens' frustrated hankering for them both-none of these can easily be appreciated without some help from The Hamlet and The Town...
...Born in 1847 in Milan, "Ohio, the infant Thomas had a head so abnormally large that the family feared he might be "defective." His cantankerous, freethinking father tried to beat sense into young Tom with a birch switch that was used so often the bark was worn off. His mother was more hopeful, and it was her reading to him from a scientific primer that started Edison on a lifetime of experimentation...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Psychologists at the University of Wisconsin prove that they can measure Mother Love -provided one of the lovers is a baby rhesus monkey and the "mother" (any object at all) is soft and cuddly...