Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resources as a Mr. Fix-It as was the birth of the quintuplets on his skill as an obstetrician. In one afternoon he finds himself obliged, as mentor for the 3,000, to: 1) succor a suicidal cinemactress, 2) trick a U. S. Governor into adopting a child, 3) bring his assistant and his nurse together, 4) save an old friend from losing his young wife. All this leaves the audience with renewed conviction that sequels are rarely as good as the first instalment...
First was a proposal for a retailing "NRA" founded on state instead of Federal statutes. At the next Dry Goods convention in January the general membership will be asked to approve a program calling for support in state legislatures of model laws covering wages, hours, child labor, deceptive advertising, misleading labeling and price cutting. All this looked like a smart attempt to head off Federal legislation in the next Congress. Ground for this suspicion was broadened last week when the Dry Goods Association belatedly announced that it had quit the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...their engagement was broken when he kissed her on the back of her neck. The trouble was, he had forgotten to take a lighted cigar from his mouth. Ann called him a soulless plug-ugly, rushed off to Hollywood, where she got a job as pressagent to a child star, vicious, golden-haired Joey Cooley. Meanwhile, back in London, when he could tear himself away from heavy meals by means of which he forgot his heartbreak, the Earl of Havershot was straightening out the affairs of an alcoholic cousin. This cousin had fallen into the clutches of a designing female...
...Isadores, suggesting that G.B.S. have a child by her, "Think of what he would be with your mind and my body," whereupon the irrepressible Shaw retorted, "Yes, a think of what he would be with your mind and my body...
Mogul is a remarkable young man who was born 24 years ago in London, but was educated in Baltimore. He clams that his powers of telepathy were discovered when he was a very young child, going to grade school. In class, he would anticipate the teacher's question, raise his hand, and read the answer right out of the teacher's mind. Later on in life, Baltimore City College, he would read the mind of the Phi Beta Kappa students during the exams and thereby obtain a high grade without any studying...