Word: motherhood
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...Subway kiosk and repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader
...feelies-movies in which audiences could not only hear and see, but feel the clinches-were a major diversion in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the Utopian state where people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of "pregnancy substitute." The only utopia currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look...
Princess Margaret was happy as a grig in her new role as chief godparent,* and Princess Elizabeth herself, rosy-cheeked and radiant once more, was only a little shy about her new motherhood. She proudly displayed a new gold, sapphire and ruby clip presented her by Philip in honor of the occasion. Only Prince Charles himself showed any displeasure at the proceedings. When the photographers turned their battery of lights full in his face, he bawled hugely and had to be pacified by a Georgian silver rattle which was appropriately produced by a well-accoutered cameraman...
...obvious effort Churchill's not very difficult line of thought. Her mien was strikingly familiar: it recalled the American matron who had learned at Bryn Mawr that an active interest in public affairs was the duty of an educated, responsible woman, and who was not going to use motherhood merely as an excuse for shirking her duty...
...Arkansas cornfield in 1919, Evangelist John Elward Brown planted an interdenominational college to spread his gospel of "God, honest toil and motherhood." Last week, at 69, President John Brown of John Brown University decided that the Lord needed him back on the evangelist's trail. He turned over his chair to son John Elward Jr., a J.B.U. graduate ('42) and ex-Navy officer. That made "Beddie" Brown, at 26, probably the youngest university head...