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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, John Kay rushed out of his office to go to a hospital to visit his wife and newborn child, ran down the hall, dashed through an open elevator door, dropped five floors to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and companion. A haymow discovery plus Calvinism plus an illegitimate child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Grace Moore and Jeanette MacDonald sing very prettily, but give the Moviegoor Deanna Durbin every time after the latter's performance in "100 Men and a Girl." Frome one who suffers from a definite aversion to child prodigies in any form, it is definitely disconcorting to have to award the palm to a fourteen year old warbler of the most unsophisticated type...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/9/1937 | See Source »

...time police found the third car abandoned by the desperadoes, Widmer and both Birds had disappeared, but in a nearby yard two small girls were screaming and pointing at a child-size pup tent in which they had been playing. Police surrounded the yard, converged on the tent. From it sheepishly emerged Theodore Slapik, his right thumb crudely bandaged where it had been hit by a detective's bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jail Breakage | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...book which was provided to clear up U. S. juveniles' ignorance about sex problems is Dr. Alice Virginia Keliher's Life & Growth. It begins with a discussion of inferiority complexes, goes on to dispel adolescents' fears of abnormality, and culminates with two chapters called "From Child to Man" and "Growing Pains," which treat the physiology of procreation with great candor. It was these that sent Philadelphia public school officials running for cover last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Books v. Tunnel | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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