Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conflict between the embittered adherence to this cause and loyalty to the nobler humane ideals of medicine is the burning theme. The right to strike seems to them indubitable until they are faced with the imminent possibility of allowing Ben Ormerod's wife to die unattended in childbirth...
...petition "for all women in the perils of childbirth," substitute simply the petition "for all women in childbirth...
...about to go on the streets. Reflecting that she might as well appropriate the tatters of his own dereliction, he took her to wife in a cottage fronting the golden fields, walled by the knightly cliffs, of Brittany. Incredible happiness kindled his life until she died in childbirth and he returned to England to lay the ghost of his new grief with the kindliness of an old, companionable sorrow...
...starlight. From a Montmartre dive in girlhood to stage triumphs, Actress Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
...McCormick died abruptly, unexpectedly, last week in Washington. He had been defeated for renomination last summer, and was serving his last few days in the Senate. His wife was at their home in Chicago, where she had been spending much time with Alice Roosevelt Longworth who was recovering from childbirth. The McCormick home in Washington had been broken up-the Senator was staying at a hotel. He returned from an evening session of the Senate and retired at 11 p. m. Next morning, correspondent William Hard, a personal friend of the McCormicks, telephoned to Mr. McCormick. There was no answer...