Word: motherhood
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Gene Tierney, sultry cinemactress (Shanghai Gesture) whose 7-month-old, prematurely born daughter, Daria, is doing well, was publicity-agented as doing well herself: motherhood has added an inch and a half to her height...
...Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...
Wrote the prelates: "The introduction of force into the most personal and delicate point of private life and of human personality would be a trampling without conscience on one of the most highly prized ideals of universal humanity. . . . Whoever places legitimate and illegitimate motherhood on the same level places a burden on the ideal of motherhood and the value of woman...
...England's second largest), thrives partly because it is sexy. Its most popular comic strip "Jane," features shapely ladies an inch nearer naked than U.S. comic artists dare draw: the straight news the Mirror prints is generously laved in sob sisters' gravy. (One recent article announced that motherhood is the "Cinderella of the Professions," and urged all young wives to bear at least four children...
...another puts on unaccustomed finery (sales of black lace underwear are booming) and travels to places she has never been before to be with her man in uniform. And for every woman who takes up a new occupation another takes up the oldest occupation-older than the oldest profession-motherhood...