Word: fatherhood
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...feminism triumphant, hysteria. The end is either a return to the balance, a reaction where the man reasserts his authority in the family, or anarchy. The paternal state, which tries to be Our-father-which-art-on-earth, is always accompanied by the loss of the subtle qualities of fatherhood in individual men. When patriotism becomes matriotism, nature and force reassert themselves in human affairs. Sympathy has been mistaken for the truth...
...study and research. In the entire history of knowledge this is the greatest opportunity . . . for the study of man and his career. . . . The noblest task in the study of man is to recover the story of the human career, which culminated in the emergence of a religion of divine fatherhood and human brotherhood...
...exception was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth who, in 1924, confirmed to newsmen the rumored advent of her child. . . . When the wife of Mischa Elman was expectant in 1926, a San Francisco newspaper printed the famed violinist's photograph with the caption: FACES FATHERHOOD...
...lieutenant, but the butcher's boy, creeping to a kitchen rendezvous. Soon the balmy girl became a mother. Her uncle dragged the lieutenant toward her, stressing the necessity for nuptials. Unable to agree, the lieutenant began by protesting his innocence of even the preliminaries of fatherhood; but eventually, finding some obscure charm in the lady's dementia, he claimed the bastard as his own, embraced the mad mademoiselle and then, kicking an epigram across the stage, killed the butcher's boy with his sword. The butcher's boy was played with mischievous skill by Romney Brent...
...President Coolidge's speech was many a ringing sentence such as: "Our doctrine of equality and liberty of humanity and charity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood...