Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinics and hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong, healthy children to the country...
...down To ring the bells of London town . . . "You owe me ten shillings!" Say the bells of St. Helen's. "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey. "When I shall grow rich?" Say the bells of Shot-editch. "Pray when will that be?" Say the bells of Stepnev. "I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" Says the great bell at Bow. - Old jingle...
...life. A familiar melodrama done in an expensive and sometimes ingenious manner, Midnight Mary is distinguished by the work of Interior Decorator Hobe Erwin and by another competent performance by Franchot Tone. When Franchot Tone emigrated from the Manhattan stage last autumn, his work in plays like Green Grow the Lilacs, The House of Connelly, Success Story, had caused him to be considered perhaps the most intelligent young actor on Broadway. Drama Critic Stark Young of the New Republic wrote an accolade in which he suggested that Actor Tone's roles were "played from a solid, flexible and imaginative...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science turned on one hand to problems of Engineering (see p. 37). on the other to problems of Society, especially to problems of parents & children. As a corollary to his epochal discovery of the unconscious, Sigmund Freud found that children did not grow up to puberty as sexless neuters, but had sexuality from birth and responded to parental fondling. His principal hypothesis held that most dreams were explainable by suppressed sexual urges; so that when young men told him of dreams in which they saw their fathers dead and young girls reported similar dreams...
...three weeks ago Tanker TN-78, bearing a cargo of molasses, sank in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, N. Y. Few days later the river began to grow white with the bellies of thousands of dead perch, dead carp, dead whitefish. The Conservation Department reported last week that the molasses had glued up the gills through which the perch, carp and whitefish breathed...