51: Special Delivery: A Surprise for Molly

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It’s Christmas time again, and all Molly McIntire wants is ... everything. Molly’s Surprise has some classic AG elements (hello, a doll gift) and a few distinctive surprises (including a heartwarming radio messages). Along with Molly’s love language (gifts) we talk about the history of the USO, how the holidays were advertised in local papers during the war, and Mrs. M’s ability to leave work at work. Grab your red striped pajamas, part your hair, and warm your circular glasses with a cocoa: it’s holiday time at the McIntires. Sources we reference in this episode:

“The Daily Monitor Leader. [Volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, December 24, 1943, Image 18.” 2020. Loc.Gov, no. 1943/12/24: 18. https://doi.org/info:lccn/sn96077289.

‌“The Chronicle-Star Combined with the Moss Point Advertiser. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1941-1949, December 22, 1944, SECTION TWO, Image 10.” 2020. Loc.Gov, no. 1944/12/22. https://doi.org/info:lccn/sn87065528.

“Celebrating Christmas in World War 2 – Keep Calm and Carry On.” 2015. 5-Minute History. December 16, 2015. https://fiveminutehistory.com/celebrating-christmas-in-world-war-2-keep-calm-and-carry-on/.

‌‌Christmas Fact Sheet - World War II Museum: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/christmas-on-the-home-front.pdf

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0:00.0	Now Allison I know that neither one of us is an attorney by any measure but I know that
0:16.0	Kim Kay is in the process of becoming an attorney and you know has not attended
0:21.1	law school either so that's inspired me to come at you with what I'll call a legal question
0:26.4	Sure so as you know Maria Carey is the Queen of Christmas and the star of our patron episode this month
0:33.2	But you know I just found out that she's rolling out a cookie company.
0:37.7	And I believe based on what I've found online
0:40.6	that you can only place an order as a wholesaler if you're a restaurant.
0:45.0	So I'm wondering how legal is it for us to pretend that our media,
0:50.0	what I'll call conglomerate, is also a restaurant group.
0:53.4	I think it's exactly what Molly would do.
0:55.8	I mean, what wouldn't Molly do for a Christmas present or a cookie? Welcome everyone to American Girls. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series
1:15.0	book by book. I'm Mary. I'm in hot pursuit of Mrs. Guilford wherever she may be.
1:20.7	I think we all are. I mean, listen, Allison, we're going to get into this, but I'll just say right off the top that Mrs.
1:30.0	Guilford, there is a war on Christmas in this book and there is one casualty and her name is Mrs. Gilford and that's all I'll say.
1:38.4	Yeah, I mean you know given the severity of the backdrop of this story, I know that using the official nomenclature like
1:46.2	MIA might be taking it too far, but where is she?
1:50.3	You know like D.B. Cooper and how he allegedly like parachuted off a plane with like
1:54.8	two hundred thousand plus dollars and has never been found? That man is dead. Yes.
2:01.6	Okay, I knew I was gonna like scratch an inch there with you.
2:04.6	And I think there's a new documentary coming out about that whole situation, which I will be taking in.
2:08.9	But that is her.
2:10.8	It's like, where is she?
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