Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know them well, you might easily have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing (he was up to $4,200-a-year from office boy after 22 years) and the New York Giants. Mr. Penn stood 5 ft. 8 in., weighed 240 lb.; Mr Orlovsky, 5 ft. 6 in., 260 lb. Each used to leave home for work about...
...births numbered in all 610,000 last year, as compared to about 1,000,000 in Italy, 1,500,000 in Germany. In the "more babies" campaign decreed last week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled the penalties for abortion and increased those on obscene literature; 3) slapped a tax on bachelors and childless families; 4) increased the tax on alcohol to pay for the campaign. This year's appropriation to pay for the "Code of the French Family...
...absolutism in 1848. When Wendell was born in 1892 his father, Herman Willkie, was a lawyer and a wealthy landowner in the town of Elwood, Ind. (pop. 10,685). His mother was also a lawyer, the first woman member of the Indiana bar, and besides tending her family (six children, of whom Wendell was the third) helped her husband in his law practice. Elwood was then riding high. Natural gas had been discovered and the supply was so plentiful that no one took the trouble to turn out the street lights by day. It was just as cheap...
...summer moving abandoned Elwood houses into the country to be used as outbuildings for farmers. Their home was a sort of perpetual debating society. They kept more than 6,000 books around the house and old Herman Willkie, back at his law practice harder than ever, woke his children in the mornings by shouting quotations from the classics...
Author Arlen, still a fashion plate at 43, is now in Greece with his wife, the Countess Atalanta Mercati, who is as beautiful as her name, and their two children. Nowadays his highest ambition is "to write a book which I can read after I'm fifty without nausea." The Flying Dutchman, pure Arlenquinade...