Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should doting but fixation-fearing parents kiss their babies by a stop watch? Should a father merely shake hands with his moppet before retiring? Is it bad for a child to like his nurse? In the current Parents' Magazine, Bertrand Russell, famed British philosopher, takes it upon himself to refute some new-fangled ideas about parenthood, to disseminate a few commonsense tenets of his own. Excerpts from his treatise, entitled: "Are Parents Bad for Children...
...primary morning Mrs. McCormick voted at her country home at Byron, then hurried to Chicago where with many a hug and kiss she was met by her good friend Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker.? When that evening returns showed she had carried the State, including Chicago, she announced: " I feel sobered by my victory. ... I would be less than human if I were not highly pleased." From Idaho's Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and also an opponent of the World Court, came a telegram: I HAVE A VACANCY ON MY COMMITTEE...
Before sailing on the Rochester thin-haired William Allen White, peripatetic Kansas editor (Emporia Gazette), member of President Hoover's commission, took occasion emphatically to deny that he had kissed or embraced a Negress on his arrival fortnight ago, as reported in the U. S. press. His version of the incident: When the Commission landed in Port-au-Prince a huge crowd was waiting on the pier. Prominent in the crowd was a white-haired old lady who fell on her knees before Editor White shrilly crying: "Deliver us! Deliver us!" Gallant Editor White made no promises, but blew...
Typical shot: Baxter lifting a little boy up to collect a kiss from his wife-a kiss for which, at a society fair, he has bid 20,000 francs...
...Lexel adds that, horrid as the gargling in the dining room was, it at least served to mitigate the beastliness of being kissed by a lot of people whose mouths and beards smelled and tasted of dinner! But then Lexel never did like promiscuous embraces, and, as a very small boy, once flatly refused to kiss even the Emperor's hand...