Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith, national president of the W. C. T. U. reassured the delegates "we have no objection to tea and coffee. We do have a . . . program against cigarets." Mrs. James Mabon of Montreal sketched the world-use of intoxicating beverages, said "under present conditions the world over not a single child is safe." Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W. C. T. U. president for New York and wife of the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the U. S. last year, censured the U. S. Government for having "invested $2,500,000 of taxpayers' money in rum distilling...
...your May 17 issue of TIME you refer to the Duke of Connaught as "Last surviving child of Queen Victoria," thus relegating to the realm of ghosts those two decidedly alive and grand old ladies, Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, both surviving offspring of the union of Victoria and Albert...
Princess Beatrice is the widow of Prince Henry of Battenberg, is the mother of former Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and resides, unless I have been misinformed, in Kensington Palace, London and Carisbrooke Castle, her official residence as Governor of the Isle of Wight. She is the youngest child of Victoria, and with her sister was among those included in the present King's Coronation honours list...
...once there was no Problem Picture, those elaborate, generally sentimental illustrations for which the R. A. has been famed for generations. Nearest approach was a painting by Irish John Keating en titled Sacred and Profane Love. It showed a harassed mother wiping the nose of a snotty child while nearby her harassed husband holds the pram and gazes long ingly at a cinema poster of an inflamed kiss...
...which the State of Oregon maintains in Portland as an adjunct of the University of Oregon medical school. There the blonde little caricature of motherhood underwent an X-ray examination a fortnight ago. This revealed to the dumbfounded staff of the hospital that Barbara Stobie was indeed carrying a child. Plainly visible were part of its bony skull, spine, arms, legs...