Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casualty. The once lively Portland (Ore.) organization called Mother-by-Proxy-which provided women to look after people's children in the evenings-folded for lack of womanpower...
...William comes from a long-lived family (his father died at 92, his mother at 87) and has his last years carefully planned out. After retiring at 70 (he is now 63) he looks forward to ten more active years to develop his firm belief that, given time for research, he can foretell the weather through statistical periodicity-a theory with which meteorologists disagree. His last years, between 80 and 100, he intends to spend facing a large wall on which he will have drawn a chart of his weather predictions. When his forecasts go wrong, he will commit suicide...
Reported Dead. Josephine Carson Baker Lion (professionally: Josephine Baker), 36, rich-brown torchsinger and scorchdancer, longtime toast of the Paris stage; of a lingering illness; in Casablanca. Her mother was a washwoman in St. Louis, her father a porter. At 18, already a veteran of colored revues, she took her elaborate curves and odd distinctions-uninhibited mobility, a primitive comic sense, a fearless voice-from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergère, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris...
Around Counsellor Simon flows the colorful traffic of a busy law office-phones and buzzers, motley clients, miscellaneous secretaries, law clerks, switchboard operators, a snooty wife and a doting mother. All this adds so much in the way of atmosphere and excitement that it could hardly be better if it rang true...
Curiously, the caves are not used for accouchements. In early summer female bats congregate in hollow trees, barns or vacant houses. (Male bats are excluded.) Here each gives birth to her live young, only one per year, with occasional twins! The baby clings to its mother as long as it is suckling, but the mother leaves it hanging from the roof or wall while she goes on brief foraging expeditions...