Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt proclaimed May 14 Mother's Day. He urged citizens "to express our love and reverence for motherhood ... by the usual tokens and messages of affection to our mothers...
...handsome half-breed in a sylvan glen to fortune and notoriety in the big city, and then back again to the sylvan glen and the knowledge that she loves the half-breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers estranged her father, burned up her baby, and put her mother on a most touching death...
...kept the faith. The movement has kept intact so that when happy days come again we will do all in our power to see that the American worker will get back the wages taken from him during the Depression. . . . Our fight is for a better manhood, for a better motherhood, for a better childhood. We say, 'Let the heavens fall but let human values be protected...
...gratefully accepted the notice, put rewrite men to work in various characteristic fashions: United Press: "Englewood, N. J.-A new mite of humanity . . . slept tonight in the nursery of the kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. ... In an adjoining room, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, rested from the ordeal of motherhood, listened delightedly to the shrill wails of the new arrival. . . ." Universal: ". . . He came at 7:30 o'clock in the white nursery of the Morrow home at Englewood. . . ." Chicago Tribune: ". . . The estate was quiet except for the rumble of the milk wagon and arrival of Dr. Edward Hawkes...
...recites alternate mornings in the "Tony's Scrap Book" period, and every evening on the Camel Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous...