Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Children sleep too much-chiefly because their parents want them out of the way. "The patience, niceness and indeed submissiveness of upper-class mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
...Children should be allowed to dress and wash themselves, even though they cannot do it well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help the child, but help him in such a way that he may act for himself...
...town businessman and their sober wives, eschewed Atlanta's worldly amusements, fraternized with one another and with messengers from overseas. In Atlanta were Baptists from Rumania, from Spain; fourteen Baptists came from Latvia. The Latvians were all one family: Rev. William Fetler, prison worker, his wife and twelve children, who play together as an orchestra...
...Most successful of all newsletters is grizzled, pipe-smoking Commander Stephen King-Hall's K.H. News-Letter. A smooth speaker on the "Children's Hour" of British Broadcasting Corp. (he told the boys & girls about Mrs. Simpson), Commander King-Hall started his news-letter to save himself the cost of answering his fan letters individually. Circulation of K.H. News-Letter has grown to 54,000 in three years, continues to grow at the rate of 500 a week. Commander King-Hall's chief source of information is the Foreign Office, where he goes three times a week...
...Offered a bargain week-end ticket giving $2.25 worth of admission, food and entertainment for $1 to adults, 50? to children...