Ryan, Terry
The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less Terry Ryan ; foreword by Suze Orman. - New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001. - 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The contester --
Rhyme does pay --
Supermarket spree --
The sleeping giant --
Father of the year --
Too damned happy --
Defiance --
Tickle hills --
Poet laureate --
Giant steps --
Name that sandwich --
The affadaisies --
Round robin --
Going, going, gone --
Hell and high water --
Mrs. Etchie --
Such a thing as destiny --
Rock bottom --
Her weight in gold --
A truckload of birds.
The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.
0743211227
2001018379
Ryan, Evelyn--Family.
Ryan family.
Prize contests in advertising.
Defiance (Ohio)--Biography.
CT275.R8964 / A3 2001
977.14043092 Rya
The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less Terry Ryan ; foreword by Suze Orman. - New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001. - 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The contester --
Rhyme does pay --
Supermarket spree --
The sleeping giant --
Father of the year --
Too damned happy --
Defiance --
Tickle hills --
Poet laureate --
Giant steps --
Name that sandwich --
The affadaisies --
Round robin --
Going, going, gone --
Hell and high water --
Mrs. Etchie --
Such a thing as destiny --
Rock bottom --
Her weight in gold --
A truckload of birds.
The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.
0743211227
2001018379
Ryan, Evelyn--Family.
Ryan family.
Prize contests in advertising.
Defiance (Ohio)--Biography.
CT275.R8964 / A3 2001
977.14043092 Rya