Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned with the overt expression and not with the underlying and subtle causes of the manifestation. It is not the products of men that should be attacked. Rather, some inquiry should be made into the reasons for the production and the desire on the part of people to foster them. A person who has indecent thoughts will not be made into a better person by being prohibited from seeing things he wants to see and reading books he wants to read...
...this British importation, a London physician named Norton (Conway Tearle) breaks off his partnership with unscrupulous Dr. Pryor (Percy Waram) because the latter has been selling narcotics. Thereupon Dr. Pryor runs to the Medical Council with the tale that Dr. Norton has been unprofessionally intimate with his wife (Phoebe Foster). Since Dr. Norton loses his right to practice, Mrs. Pryor is disgraced and her husband subsequently sent to jail, the chief characters of this piece appear to be living not dangerously but miserably...
Fourth in December, the Harvard R.O.T.C. pistol team scored 767 points to take sixth place in the January match of the Metropolitan Pistol League, held at the Boston Rifle and Revolver Club last night. Albert D. Foster, Jr. '36 was high undergraduate with 158 points. There are 11 teams in the League...
...William Henry Leonard, died at 24 of tuberculosis aggravated by drink; his sister Rosalie never developed mentally after adolescence. Edgar's mother died in Richmond, Va. when he was three, and he and his infant sister were adopted (though never legally) by kind-hearted Richmond families. Poe adored his foster-mother, Mrs. Allan, but never got along with his "Pa." Though he was brought up as a little Virginia gentleman, he soon ceased to conform. Tragedy visited him early and often, did nothing to thicken an already abnormally thin skin. At 15 he had his second bereavement, when an older...
...immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert (Tom Brown) whose mother, as a girl, had jilted Matthew. It is a characteristic of the lavender-&-old-lace-school in the cinema that such slight pretexts cause tremendous difficulties. It takes a normal-school career for Anne...