Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poliomyelitis. Next month the greatest scourge of childhood, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), will make its yearly descent on the U. S. To parents who are nervous about bringing their children to the New York World's Fair, Dr. John L. Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, was reassuring: "In the years 1937 and 1938 the incidence of the disease was very low and this year, up to the present time, it is even lower. No one can predict the future of poliomyelitis accurately, but based on our present knowledge, no one need fear infantile paralysis in New York City this...
...enough to keep her busy. Following her inevitable pattern, she was restless and dissatisfied again. The columnist's job Saved her from boredom and turned her burgeoning energy into the channels from which she could derive the most personal satisfaction. And the ideas she had absorbed since childhood became her credo as a columnist...
...peasants, 465 workmen, 65 soldiers, 187 women, 870 Party members. There are 53 presidents of collective farms, an 80-year-old scientist, a 19-year-old textile worker, a Cossack writer, an actress. There is Comrade Deputy Olga Leonova, 42, whose official biography begins "Stern and miserable was the childhood of O. F. Leonova." There is Deputy Bach, 82, exiled in 1878, whose record begins, "A. N. Bach has lived a long and beautiful life." There is Alexander Bussy-gin, 32, who was so electrified during the Stakhanov movement that he forged 1,001 crankshafts in one shift...
...early scenes, with their warm, not unhumorous account of a pre-War childhood, and their spanking pace, are fresh and alive. But despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never slides out of the worn proletarian groove. The stagecraft-combining Living Newspaper technique with class-conscious expressionism-would once have seemed striking, today is dated...
Considered by his friends to be the most lively and happy-go-lucky of his rigid grandfather's grandsons, Nelson has shared from childhood the artistic interests of his mother ("one of the most extraordinary persons I've ever met"). At Dartmouth, besides playing two years on the soccer team, he edited a magazine called The Five Arts. In 1930, he married hearty, charming Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadelphia, took her honeymooning around the world and settled in a big remodeled farmhouse near the golf course at Pocantico Hills. Since then they have had five children: Rodman...