Word: brood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that amount next year, by rushing to market little pigs before they became big pigs, brood sows before they had another litter. The proposal called...
...roll prepared by Postmaster Farley for the President's approval. July 15 was to be the day when the Democracy got its hands on its first batch of Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule, the President had managed to see most of his brood during his vacation cruise. One whom he did not see, and of whom he had not seen much since the inauguration, was Son-in-law Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (''America...
...being afraid of the dark. The child's torture is made credible by the sly malice with which his unnatural mother administers it. One night Foil de Carotte does not pray his usual prayer that "Mme Lepic will forget about him for a little while." He begins to brood on suicide. Even next morning, when his father has him come to a party celebrating his election as village mayor, the desolate child finds himself suddenly abandoned, ridiculed for his cast-off clothing on what promised to be a day of days. In a barn he finds a rope...
...going to marry, Jen showed her how to get him over it. Her secret diplomacy got Lois May her chance to get away from the life she hated. When Olly felt misunderstood, Jen made him understand that he was not. When the Janowskis settled their squalling Polish brood on a neighboring farm, it was Jen's tolerance that kept the Shaw mind open until Stan Janowski proved his worth as a farmer. In spite of Jen's impregnable excellence Authoress Carroll makes her such an attractive character that finally even skeptical readers will agree with the Yankee Shaw...
...Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive plans to commit suicide with an unpublished novelist, Daughter Elizabeth (Ruth Gordon) turns practical, gets a job at Macy...