Word: broods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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...
Pierce Hurley, "Pat's" father, was a poor Irish immigrant. In Texas he married Mary Kelly. They had a brood of children. Pierce Hurley was thrown from a horse, crippled for life. Mary Hurley slaved to keep the family together, died when Pat was n. Said he years later: . "Mother's death hit me terribly. I was dazed for weeks. What I have made of myself has been due in no small measure to her, to my sisters and, in later years, to my wife. I've been mighty fortunate with my womenfolk...
...advising "owners of stud dogs or brood bitches, furnishing stud services or leasing, as the case may be, for the consideration of a puppy, as either a stud fee or a leasing fee, to have such agreements placed in the form of a written contract, so that there can be no possible misunderstanding after the whelping. In fact, it is advisable to have all business transactions relating to dogs placed in writing for the mutual protection of all concerned...
...place on the prairie, the mother-duck builds her nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish of thirst, or else they have to cross great stretches of mud, open to their natural enemies...