Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife's mother was a midwife. In her house Anna said she bore her baby Aug. 17. Next night the baby was taken away to be "adopted." Weeks later, said Anna, she had learned through an entirely different case the identity of the woman who had her child. She now wanted him back. In his recommendation to the Court of Appeals, tantamount to final decision, Commissioner Limbaugh tenderly took note: "The indescribable but eloquent expression of motherly instinct and affection revealed by Anna Ware when she first saw the baby in court was significant...
...Marsh Pitzman, an old friend of Mrs. Muench, had certified that she had given birth. On the stand, however, he told a different story. The first time he had seen the child, he said, was when it was lying on a bed in the Muench home. He recalled that red-headed Mrs. Muench had been at pains to point out to him that the baby had red hair. Dr. Pitzman took the child to a window, found its hair was not red. Suspicion finally dawned, Dr. Pitzman said, when no one, not even Dr. Muench, stepped forward to say that...
Astronomers have suggested that the Star of Bethlehem which guided the wise men to the Child Jesus was a nova or "new star," exploding like famed Nova Herculis of 1934. Last week Professor William Henry Barton Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector in the new Hayden Planetarium, ran celestial time backward and showed how the Star might have been a planetary conjunction. In 8 B.C. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars were very close together, as the projector showed on the vault of the Planetarium dome. When the projector was run slowly forward...
...were hired to blow the difficult wind instruments at first but now all 80 players are women and for six years the conductor has been graceful, blonde Ebba Sundstrom, who is determined that the orchestra shall sound professional. Conductor Sundstrom has worked at music since she was a child on a farm in Lindsborg, Kans. At 7 she played the violin, at 13 she organized a trio, played in hotels and theatres. She was organist and choir director at Grace Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, when she met a young Swedish dentist as blonde as herself, became Mrs. Victor Nylander...
...into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies, 'our physician advised it.' 'Madam,' I say, 'when you administer cocoa to your child, you are giving the dear little one a poisonous drug.' . . . Oh, if the human race would but live right, what a beautiful...