Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eiddil yn goncwerwr mawr Gwaed y groes sydd yn ddarostwng Gewri cedyrn ffyrdd I llawr Gad m'i deimlo Awel o galfaria fryn* So sang Secretary of Labor James John Davis one night last week over the radio from Washington. It was an old, old hymn which his mother Esther used to sing to him as a little boy in Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary of Labor sang in Welsh for two reasons: i) The song...
Tillir Ruminer dared not tell the sheriff what she knew. One of the attackers threatened to kill her, whipped her father and mother, carried away her brother as a hostage...
...story of two suitors, both of whom are in love with the same lady. The resulting complications furnish an amusing one act comedy. "Poil de Carrotte," in which Miss Kathleen Shaw plays the title role, is a domestic tale of a child who is not understood by his mother...
...further injections continued the temporary sterility. Chief mover of last week's conference was Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, wife of a famed Manhattan insurance economist. She has been president of the Ameri- can Birth Control League since Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger resigned in 1928. Brown-haired, slim, energetic, mother of two college daughters (Bryn Mawr, Yassar) herself a Radcliffe graduate, she has made Birth Control a learned, professional, socialite movement...
...NATURAL MOTHER-Dominique Dunois-Macaulay ($2.50). This book was awarded the 1929 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband...