Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sitting quietly at his maple desk, the Vagabond's thoughts wander into devious channels, and his pen following his mind as a child imitates its seniors--traces an incongruous line of thought, erratic but mild. Today he loiters before the haberdasheries of Harvard Square, gazing in vain at windows filled with things he wished his friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which...
...kidnapping (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), but her troubles were far from over. In August 1935, six weeks before her trial, she had announced that she had given birth to a son, "a gift from God in my time of distress." Remarkable to newshawks was Mrs. Muench's child-bearing at the age of 42 after 23 years of childless married life. When Dr. Muench, who is not an obstetrician, declared he was the attending physician at the birth, the press began to investigate. Soon they found an unwed Pennsylvania servant girl whose baby had been born in St. Louis...
Most famed example of Artist Copley's slow pace is his large portrait of The Knatchbull Family. While years passed and Copley continued to peck at the canvas, Sir Edward Knatchbull's first and second wives died and he married a third, sired a tenth child. Undaunted, Artist Copley got Ladies Knatchbull I and II in the picture as angels in the sky, but later Sir Edward had them painted out. Out of fashion and in debt, Artist Copley died in 1815, twelve years before his son, John Singleton Jr., became Lord Chancellor of England...
...Jani dived into the strange world of French school life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures. The youngest girl, Klari-soon so assimilated she was called Claire-was most deeply influenced by the family transplanting, becoming vigilant and wary as a child, defiant and aloof as an adolescent, practical and forthright with a surprising insight into people as she grew...
Thereafter Author Lawrence follows each employe home to reveal what lay back of his decision; Gregory wanting to marry, ambitious Johnny Palmet trying to get luxuries for his extravagant wife, Kati Oliver wanting to raise a child, frightened little Mureth Gavril trying to escape her mother's dominance, all with their noses close to the grindstone, all burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain...