Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among other forms of Marxist progress, the Communist Revolution brought Russia "voluntary motherhood." A 1920 law permitted Soviet hospitals to perform abortions without charge. Business got so heavy that women queued up in some of the bigger hospitals. Abortions were soon rivaling births in some Soviet cities, and a small fee was charged for the service. Alarmed at this drainage of its manpower, Russia banned abortions in 1936 except for strictly therapeutic reasons...
...attractive blonde correspondent managed to keep her children calm and file her election dispatches for FOREIGN NEWS' Ritual Day. Monica is not one to let motherhood interfere for long with journalism. Twice she has sent us cryptic cables to the effect that she would be out of touch briefly. Each time we received from her, in about ten days, excellent story suggestions with the notations that she had taken time out for childbearing...
...CRIMSON feels about the theory of twenty-fifth reunions the way it does about Virtue and Motherhood--it isn't safe to attack any of them publicly. Not that there is any particular urge to attack, but the question just never arises. We assume that a twenty-fifth reunion is a Good Thing because anything of such monolithic proportions simply must have merit. And yet, there is certainly an air of organized fun about the reunion proceedings, and that is one of the CRIMSON'S pet bugbears. The proprietors of this column early appointed themselves guardians of social individuality...
...crippled with arthritis and had to get around on crutches, she painted her house and tarred the roof. Last week Lavina, 75, badly crippled but plucky as ever, was named Mother of the Year by the American Mothers Committee, Inc. At first she was reluctant to enter her name. "Motherhood," she said sternly, "is not a competitive event." But when she won the title, Lavina was speechless. For fully two minutes she held her face in her hands, then looked up at her daughter. "It's you children and your father," she announced...
...calls herself Lucky ("It pronounces Looky, as in Looky Strike"), organized L'Association Mutuelle des Mannequins de France. For dues of $7 a year, the association undertook to provide its members with free legal aid, a form of unemployment insurance, medical aid (even in cases of unwed motherhood), and the services of a plastic surgeon. "A bosom of growing importance," sighs Lucky, "is often a cause of unemployment."* Best of all, the association provided its girls with a place to sit and chat and receive professional phone calls...