Word: childbirth
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...narrative wanders to the old tales of what Graves calls "the good and bad and beside-the-point" of Brazos history. He tells of one settler, John Davis, who built the first floorboards in any cabin in the Palo Pinto country, and who, when his bride died in childbirth, tore up the floor to make a coffin...
...Archaeological Excavations, started digging in a pit near a wall of the medieval church of St. Homobonus, patron saint of tailors. Penetrating 20 ft. down, they came to a layer of rubbly soil which they recognized as the earth-fill foundation of Roman temples of Mater Mututa, goddess of childbirth, and Fortuna, protectress of women who have been married only once. In this hallowed ground they found twelve fragments of dark brown pottery decorated with incised dots and geometrical figures...
...real Mrs. Breuer was indeed very jealous of Anna O., causing her husband to give up the case. Anna O., writes Freud's Biographer Ernest Jones, thereupon entered "the throes of an hysterical childbirth, the logical termination of a phantom pregnancy that had been invisibly developing in response to Breuer's ministrations." But no one succeeded in freeing her from the basic source of her trouble-the fact that her beloved father had died of a heart attack in a Neapolitan brothel...
...curse that will fall upon her if she is not married at the appointed hour, Apu makes the noble gesture and marries her himself. To his amazement he falls in love with the girl, and for a year they live a garret idyl in Calcutta. Then she dies in childbirth. Almost insane with grief, Apu throws his novel, his career and almost his life away, but he finds himself again in his relation to his son, in his duty to the future, in his love of life...
Born. To Terry Moore, 30, cinemactress, and Stuart Warren Cramer III, 32, Los Angeles businessman and her third husband: their first child, a son, by natural childbirth (she watched it by mirror) ; in Hollywood...