Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the A. B. C. L. and its sparkplug since Mrs. Margaret Sanger (mother of two) took to the international field, is Mrs. Allison Pierce Moore (mother of three). Mrs. Moore was agitated about the Massachusetts police who raided and closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings...
...father, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table), initiated campaigns to make doctors wash their hands before attending women in labor. And it was Judge Holmes who ruled from the Massachusetts bench in 1884 that "during the gestation period, the child is part of his mother's bowels," and therefore is not an individual capable of being injured in an accident...
...DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE-Josephine Lawrence-Little, Brown ($2.50). The story of three female martyr complexes-a possessive mother, an old-maid office worker, a good wife-who reap the ingratitude their selfish self-sacrifice deserves; by the author of If I Have Four Apples...
...third time in the history of Mother Advocate, a cash award is awaiting the winner of the coming Business Competition. The prize, a check for $25, is the joint contribution of Bernard P. Day '25, and the Trustees of the Advocate...
...interesting points. The story, which once ran in the Ladies Home Journal, is one of Faith Baldwin's most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder of their former husband, while the District Attorney (Walter Abel) does his best to outwit the attorney for the defense, with whom he, too, is hopelessly in love...