Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud of your motherhood in spite of the separation...
...love of politicians for the flag, the home, motherhood and other sanctified institutions has been a favorite theme of U. S. satirists since Lowell wrote The Biglow Papers. That this particular vein of fun has run thin became apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth...
...Semitic-looking man and his beauteous brown-haired wife hastened out of a little red-brick cottage behind a nurse carrying a basket. In the basket was a baby. The foursome climbed into a cab, were whisked to Chicago's County Court. There Al Jolson, famed publicizer of motherhood, and Wife Ruby Keeler, who for two years had wanted a child, formally adopted a 7-week-old black-locked son. Father Jolson had rushed from Manhattan, Mother Keeler from Hollywood for the adoption. Soon as they signed the papers, each rushed back to his respective home, she with...
...these circumstances, Elizabeth Bergner's performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death...
Some day we will come to the knowledge that all motherhood to be effective in producing right-minded and right-bodied children must be voluntary in the female...