Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dilemma caused by the complexity of the sub-plots becomes almost amusing towards the end, when the central character is forced to rush from one death-bed to another in order to tidy up the loose ends of the plot and conclude the tale. Of course, much of this is as Dickens wrote it, and there might be no justice in complaint were it not for that masterpiece of last year as an example of what can be done with Dickens...
When the Maternity Center Association was founded 30 years ago, it had one aim: lowering the U.S. maternal death rate. M.C.A. urged editors of general magazines to drop their priggish taboos against discussing the problems of pregnancy; it advised women to get medical care early in pregnancy-and hospitals to give...
...preaching pre-natal care, and founded institutes in which 25,000 nurses learned better techniques of caring for women in childbirth; in 1932 a school was established for training nurse-midwives to replace ignorant midwives. The association is proud of the part it played in lowering the maternal death rate from 9.2 per 1,000 in 1918 to 3.7 (including diseases of pregnancy...
...Club. Miss Hazel Corbin, who joined the association as a trained nurse in 1919 and became its general director in 1923, announced a new goal. The association would now like to see the principles of psychosomatic medicine applied to childbirth. Said Miss Corbin, a vigorous, greying 53: "The emergency death-preventing job which has been done in maternity care has exacted a price in emotional coinage and human dignity. When the obstetric care of the mother was moved from the home to the hospital to save life, childbearing was transported from the natural, intimate .human atmosphere of the family...
Literary Legends. The friends of James who published their reminiscences of him after his death-especially Ford Madox Hueffer-romanticized, to say the least. Nowell-Smith has taken incidents and opinions and anecdotes from a hundred-odd sources-H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Mrs. Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett -and assembled them in the form of a dossier. The result is as absorbing as a good mystery story...