Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical conversations about woman's responsibilities, that it might have been written in an effort to check Britain's declining birth rate. Mother of three sons and a daughter, Enid Bagnold in private life is Lady Roderick Jones, wife...
Just to keep the record straight, however, and in order to do justice to a friend, may I say that the quotation attributed to me, that Mayor Kelly is "a Charley McCarthy" who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood [but] aside from that . . . hasn't missed a pitch," was in reality written by Milton S. Mayer, Chicago's journalistic Puck and our star writer, in a recent issue of The Beacon. The quotation reflects my sentiments. . . . SYDNEY JUSTIN HARRIS Editor The Beacon Chicago...
...Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy'' who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood. Aside from that, he hasn't missed a pitch...
...Hearst New York Journal and American was strong for suppression, but the New York Post wanted to know "Is Motherhood Indecent?" Said the Boston Traveler: "Every one of us was born. Is it any harm to know how?" Editor & Publisher, respected journalists' journal, editorialized: "We can point to no better channel of education than pictures selected by an editor with a sense of decency, balance and intelligence." Most belligerent in defense of LIFE was the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America meeting in Washington this week. The Conference endorsed "the journalistic enterprise of LIFE magazine...
...shalt not' attitude only makes things worse," he said, "and encourages the reading of pornographic matter. Feeding kids straight stuff gives them something to think about. It's good of Smith to want to censor the lewd and lascivious. but that isn't what happens. A constructive story on motherhood is banned, while sadistic and sex magazines are still allowed to lie on the stands...