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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succulent the flesh of unborn animals is, few civilized people know.* Civilized sentiment obscurely associated with motherhood generally forbids its eating. U. S. Government regulations have codified that sentiment by prohibiting the marketing of unborn cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent religious injunction against such eating. Scarcity of slaughterhouse fetuses, Dr. Elijah Joseph Gordon, slight, swarthy, witty Professor of Medicine at Ohio State University, admitted last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fetal Livers | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Song of Love (Columbia). An exposure of the difficulties of backstage motherhood reaches its denouement when one Buddy Gibson (David Durand) surprises both the cinematic and the actual audience by singing the theme song, "Take

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were actually confronted with this question last week and expected to make a public reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Act of God? | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...commented, of course, on the contest. The traditional Brisbanality at such a juncture would have been to the effect that the noblest thing Miss Universe could now do would be to go home and marry some good man and be a good wife and exercise woman's richest function, Motherhood. Instead, Mr. Brisbane Brisbantered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

When her love "clears" by consummation, her art acquires clean, voluptuous curves, a well-defined posterlike quality. Suddenly, however, her art switches to violent angles and she casts out love. Then, tiring of angles, she decided to have a baby, curious to know what kind of art supplements motherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sextette | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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