Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sept. 19: "Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are dying. Are we going to think only of our skins and our own pockets...
Clarence June, Michigan swamp farmer, had a wife, ten children, a cow, and a house (one-room). But somehow life had begun to pall on him. His friend, George Davis, Flint factory worker, with a wife and four small daughters, was bored...
...they decided on a swap: for George's wife and daughters, George could have Clarence's wife, seven of the June children, and the cow. Their wives agreed, and the swap was made. They lived that way with less boredom, for three months...
...last week the deal was off. A shocked Circuit Court in Lapeer County, after listening to the testimony of the children, convicted all four parents of illegal cohabitation, released the mothers to take care of their children, held the fathers pending sentence...
Author Milne further objects to the lopsided fate that lets his plays (Mr. Pim Passes By, etc.), novels and essays (which he prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he sticks out his tongue at the tots and says rudely: "I am not inordinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to me is a physical appeal such as the young of other animals make...