Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carl Y. Matthews of Cleveland used to bathe in Gull Pond, a saltwater inlet near Greenport, L. I. He took his daughter, Irene, 7, all the way from Cleveland not only to visit the scenes of his childhood but to bathe in Gull Pond. He, clothed, stood on the beach and watched her. She waded out until the water was splashing about her middle...
Stocky, tousle-haired Pablo Ruiz Picasso looks like an extremely able Spanish mechanic, will be 50 years old on Oct. 23. He was born in Malaga in Andalusia,* the son of an Italian mother, a Spanish drawing-teacher father. From his earliest childhood it was understood that he was to be an artist. He lived successively in Barcelona, Madrid, finally Paris-always drawing. Paris became his spiritual as well as his physical home. Today it is as unfair to consider him simply a Spanish artist as it is to consider George Bernard Shaw an Irish dramatist...
...bruised body of a pretty girl with veronal in the liver were washed ashore on the sands of Long Beach, N. Y.; if she were found to be of respectable but somewhat eccentric family; if her diary revealed her as a neurotic and alluded to childhood misadventures with an unnamed, elderly and prominent man; if the girl's name were Sadie Schmitz and she lived, say, on West 17th Street, New York; if such a case occurred in cool weather with an abundance of other news breaking concurrently?how would the newspapers treat it? Probable answer: as a good local...
...unhappy blamed their condition on early education and religious sexual taboos, on relatives-in-law, money, children (but most declared they wanted more), and on housekeeping. Some had had "a shock in childhood related to the sex side of life." But most of all, they complained of unsatisfactory marital sex-life, often due to faulty courtship of husbands. Said Dr. Dickinson: "Teaching men and women the medical art of love is one of the most important steps toward preventive medicine and better social adjustments...
...days before its New York premiere. It relates the pastel-tinted tale of the Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M. P. (Louis Calhern), who has decided that the world is too much with him, that it would be better to chuck everything and return to the irresponsible life of childhood...