Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva is a hallowed place which none may enter but themselves. Across the broad mesa go "gatherers" in search of snakes. Scores of serpents are caught, imprisoned in the kiva. The priests...
...outspoken. It is Grand Hotel in an obstetrical ward?the principal members of its cast are seven expectant mothers, one of them equipped with twins. The old theme of a father waiting for his child to be born is only the springboard episode for Life Begins. Before the main plot develops, the audience has heard the moans of the "labor room," seen a pregnant woman of the world (Glenda Farrell) drink whiskey from a hot water bottle, and sympathized with an unmarried mother when she says that soldiers who die on the field of battle and mothers...
...readjustment is "the integration of the American college. . . . Duplication of effort is being reduced, and systems of colleges are being organized. While taking toll of weakness, the depression has at the same time tended to conserve and enhance strength wherever found." Hence, mergers, consolidations and closures have in the main been justified...
...agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends James Branch Cabell, Mary Johnston, Joseph Hergesheimer, Hugh Walpole. She has never married...
...British Medical Association conducted in London last fortnight was that body's 100th. But save for a "pilgrimage" to Worcester where a group unveiled a memorial window in Worcester Cathedral and a plaque on the home of the late Sir Charles Hastings, B. M. A. founder, speakers in the main refrained from historical palaver. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley told about the "Biology of Human Nature.'' The Prince of Wales attended the Centenary Dinner in Albert Hall, sat close to his personal physician Bertrand Dawson Lord Dawson of Penn, incoming B. M. A. president...