Word: brooding
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...support from such a vehement anti-Hooverite as her good friend Senator Borah. There were two others. They were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York, and his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. He was T. R.'s fifth cousin, she, his favorite niece. Yet President Roosevelt's immediate brood looked upon these two kinsmen with political distrust and personal disfavor because they were Democrats. Once during the 1920 campaign young Theodore Roosevelt, to dispel the popular impression that Franklin Roosevelt was a real chip off the Big Stick, declared: "He's a maverick! He doesn't have the brand...
Only one of Mammy's brood is no good. He is Solomon, who runs around with the white boys and wears store clothes. It is he who murders the white girl and brings the posse, hunting him with hounds, guns and hate, to the cabin. They catch Solomon, and while he agonizingly calls for his family which huddles inside the shack, the white men burn him to death with his mother's cherished stovewood...
...final decision" (no prospective suicide will be nagged, browbeaten or cajoled into remaining alive). During the hearty banquet last week leading Viennese stage folk (not all of them comedians) did their best to entertain the 1,000 strange guests, some of whom actually laughed before they went away to brood. "We estimate that 70% of the people who consult us ultimately decide against suicide." said the Advisory Centre's quiet, kindly secretary. "It seems to be in mutual comparison of their troubles that our clients profit most. So many think their own fate unbearable, only to learn that...
...first child is usually less bright than the rest of the brood. He also behaves worse. But if the next child is of opposite sex, the second child stimulates and regulates the first. A child six or more years the junior of a brother or sister is generally dull. Intelligence and vigor depend on the social activity within a household and upon the heredity. Apparently it does not matter whether a couple is young or old to have intelligent offspring...
When he comes back, he finds that his salary of $80 per month which his mother should have been receiving has been appropriated by the worst of her brood, the hypocrite. Turned out by all her children, the old lady is scrubbing floors in an institution. James Dunn belabors his brother in a village street, retrieves his mother, marries his sweetheart (Sally Eilers), and proposes, in response to his mother's entreaties, a family reunion...