Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian mothers last week babbled these pleasant tales of motherhood to Benito Mussolini in his big office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
Hearty in his talk with most of the mothers last week, II Duce dropped his voice to an undertone while talking with Signora Venia Errani, mother of 13, whose husband is fighting in Spain. The Dictator then delivered extempore a series of lusty remarks about fecundity so pointed that several husbands who had come with their wives blushed furiously. "You report to me" Mussolini warned his champion mothers, "if your husbands don't treat you as they should...
...years ago the Dominion of New Zealand granted exclusive landing rights to Pan American Airways, providing that regular service was established between Auckland and Honolulu before 1938. Basing at Honolulu, P. A. A. last month sent its servicing "mother ship" 1,075 miles due south to Kingman Reef, first stop on the new route. Second stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn...
...February the superb exhibition of pictures by Vincent van Gogh, assembled by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1935, closed in Manhattan after being seen by 900,000 people in nine cities, a record for traveling shows in the U. S. surpassed only by Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration completed its first two years. Among its accomplishments were a much-publicized renaissance of mural painting, a great work of national scholarship in the Index of American Design,* free art classes for children...
...silk bathrobe he used to wear in the ring. He had suffered a kidney hemorrhage and was definitely through with fighting. One of his few prudent acts while in the money will save him from the fuddled penury of most prizefighters' declining years. He had given his mother a little hotel in Venice. The injured and obsolete giant plans to go there and retire...