Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be open, and not surreptitious, but the writings and personal life of Bertrand Russell show his moral ideas to be a kind I and my family will not tolerate," firmly declared pretty Gloria Kay, daughter of Mrs. Jean Kay of Brooklyn, who brought suit against philosophy professor Bertrand Russell...
...Gloria is a student at Erasmus High in Brooklyn, and has a liberal-minded family, which believes that the so-called "facts of life" should be taught children at an early age, but taught in the right way. "Mr. Russell is undoubtedly a very smart man," she admitted in a recent News interview. "And it is for this reason he would be dangerous in cleverly misleading weak-minded boys and girls with his ideas of trial marriages and other things which would bring down our present high standard of morals. I wouldn't want to be taught...
...educational schools and colleges also meet the approval of Gloria Kay. "Though a fellow or girl may distract each other to an extent that might harm their work," she remarked, "this would be counteracted by the inspiration the one would get from the other as far as hard work and good living are concerned. The result is probably just as good, if not better, than that obtained in 'all-boy' or 'all-girl' schools. The co-educational system is one of the principles of modern education, and I approve of the association...
Birthday. Heiress Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 16, onetime centre of a custody battle between Mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, widow of Reginald Vanderbilt, and Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney...
...humor the birth of seven infants. In this somewhat redundant remake of the tear-jerking stage play, Life Begins, first screened in 1932, grave, talented, strikingly lovely Geraldine Fitzgerald plays the mother who dies (from a Caesarean operation) that her baby may live. Other maternity-ward performers: Spring Byington, Gloria Holden, Gladys George, and 20 babies (average age 14 days), who, by working a total of 73 seconds, earning $75, became Hollywood's highest-paid actors. From their pay checks the far-sighted U. S. Government deducted percentages for unemployment insurance, old-age pensions...