Word: brooding
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...same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep him from the other children. The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away. Johnny got well. None of the other children got diphtheria...
...monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning to both English-speaking nations. Far more fit than the boys of the U. S. and England, said he, are the boys of Italy...
While President Roosevelt was resting over the weekend, his busy brood was, as usual, making news...
...will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush of their own choosing...
...Harvard graduates now officially listed, the Cincinnati gathering will amount to only a small percentage--but it will be a representative group, and therein lies its importance. Harvard's heterogeneous brood is scattered throughout the world. Thus, except for a brief splurge at their twenty-fifth reunion, far too few of this brood can ever get back to the old Yard or the new Houses for a visit or renewal of contact with their Alma Mater; business pressure, distance, inertia, or a thin wallet sec to that. Yet it is vitally necessary that Harvard alumni do maintain a thread...