Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Implicit in Mumford, this interpretation of the saintly old figure is rudely expressed in Albert Parry's biography of her husband, the great but forgotten Major George Washington Whistler. Biographer Parry has a lively if somewhat insistent irreverence for the Motherhood which the Major's wife exuded throughout life and continues to symbolize in paint. As he reads the evidence, she snagged him after the death of his first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry...
...went. She had her own visiting, inspecting, encouraging jobs to do. On a 24-hour schedule, from which future appointments had been dropped, she simply went where she thought she ought to go, appearing at one WATS post which happened to be temporarily deserted. And she typified lonely British motherhood, for her two daughters had also been evacuated. She stood it as long as she could, then flew to Scotland to see them last fortnight. No British Queen had ever spent a month more like the month spent by her subjects, and the parallel and the example was not lost...
Minister of Labor Franz Seldte put into effect last week. Women, decreed Minister Seldte, must not be made to work more than ten hours a day, 54 hours a week. Nazi Seldte's reason: "Women must have plenty of time for their natural profession, motherhood...
...would decline from its present 42,000,000 to 35,000,000 in 1980. French births numbered in all 610,000 last year, as compared to about 1,000,000 in Italy, 1,500,000 in Germany. In the "more babies" campaign decreed last week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled the penalties for abortion and increased those on obscene literature; 3) slapped a tax on bachelors and childless families; 4) increased the tax on alcohol to pay for the campaign. This year...
...priests, is part of the curriculum. "The Stunner, which writes almost exclusively about sexual outrages, bedroom gossip and scandal, is read in the schools to children between 6 and 14." Copies hang on classroom walls. Result: "Pupils have become possessed by pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they can marry their mistresses...