Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture rather than a weekly basis, she is Hollywood's highest-paid woman, the highest-salaried woman in the world. There is no doubt of her being a loving mother. Old friends tell how anxiously, when Maria was abroad, Dietrich waited for a letter containing the child's first tooth. When at last the denticle arrived Dietrich put it in her mouth and carried it there for several days. Despite the scintillating quality of her male escorts, the world's No. 1 glamour girl is definitely lonely. Acquaintances believe that her best friend is her hairdresser, Nellie...
...Loftur Guttormsson the Rich. Hrólfur Bjarnason the Strong and Svenn Thórarinsson who was a procurator and royal farm manager in 1857. When a son was born to Svenn Thórarinsson, he named the babe Jon Svensson. But Jon's mother nicknamed her child "Nonni," and when the boy grew up he popularized that name in Europe in many a book about himself. Spry at 79, "Nonni" Svensson, S.J. turned up at Fordham University last week, willingly rehearsed his story for the Press. "Nonni" did not live long on the Icelandic farm of his birth...
...There are intelligent and offensive methods of school visiting. If you go to school to check on your child's progress ... do not embarrass him by talking about him before others. . . . Going to school to criticize is fraught with danger. ... It should never be done on one's first visit. . . . No matter what our motives are for visiting the school, the canons of good taste should govern the call...
...Washington, U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker announced that since American Education Week, child of the American Legion, the U. S. Office of Education and the National Education Association, was launched in 1920, the number of U. S. teachers has grown from 815,000 to 1,050,000, secondary school enrollments have boomed from 2,413,000 to 6,395,000, college enrollments from...
...action commences in 18th century France during the honeymoon of a Spanish nobleman with the young daughter of an English merchant. Enraged at being cuckolded by an English officer, the Spaniard allows his wife to die in childbirth, and he deposits the child in a convent. Unknowingly apprenticed to his own grandfather, the child grows up to become the heir and hope of the family firm, the Casa da Bonnyfeather...