Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long accepted by embryologists has been a theory that the marsupial mother tucks her newborn into the pouch with her lips. When, at various times, scientists reported cases of kangaroo and opossum babies crawling up their mothers' inclined bodies into the incubating pouches by themselves, most of their colleagues raised an eyebrow. The fetuses, they said, were too immature for such mountaineering...
...according to Dr. McCrady, the young opossums do exactly that: after the mother has moistened the hair on her abdomen, they slowly pull themselves by the claws on their forefeet up the incline into the soft, warm, apron-pocket pouch. The mother sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...
...pouch the youngsters stay for about 55 days, attached to their mother's body by the swelling of her nipples, too big for their tiny mouths to release. When they have developed to the size of a mouse they crawl about her body, with frequent visits home. Thirty days later, fully developed in everything but size, they leave home for good; but not until three years have passed do they reproduce their teaspoonfilling kind...
Hart lives with his mother, whom he describes as "a sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
...Queen Mother wore a diamond tiara shaped exactly like her hats- honestly...