Word: motherhood
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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...
...Parisian girls' club whose portals no man may pass-officially. Of course one manages to slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...
...wife of a southern Oregon timber worker, finally took her to a local doctor. He suggested that the baby go to the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital which the State of Oregon maintains in Portland as an adjunct of the University of Oregon medical school. There the blonde little caricature of motherhood underwent an X-ray examination a fortnight ago. This revealed to the dumbfounded staff of the hospital that Barbara Stobie was indeed carrying a child. Plainly visible were part of its bony skull, spine, arms, legs...
...member of a profession which throughout the ages has held sacred motherhood with all of its implications I feel I must record my indignation and disgust at the language your special writer used in describing this case...
Wrote John Joseph O'Neill of the New York Herald Tribune: ''One of the earliest applications of the discovery is expected to make motherhood possible to women who are handicapped by some dysfunction of the physiological processes and are unable to go through a full period of pregnancy. It will also be a godsend to those women who desire children but do not wish to bear them for the full period of gestation...