Word: motherhood
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...babies, and 1,500,000 new brides. Some of the brides are already mothers and lots more U.S. babies are on the way. In February 1941 the U.S. birthrate hit 20.2, passing Germany's for the first time since 1933, when Adolf Hitler began encouraging motherhood...
...Home and motherhood got an unexpected shellacking last week at Stephens College, famed finishing school for future mothers. Stephens' homey President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, believing that "the mother in the home is the key to future civilization," had gathered some 500 housewives and professionals (psychiatrists, teachers, et al,) for a three-day forum on The American Woman and Her Responsibilities. But Daddy Wood's family gathering turned into a family brawl...
Frank ("I-Am-the-Law") Hague, Boss-Mayor of Jersey City, loves to be dramatic. He is dramatic about motherhood (he has never been a mother), about Jersey City (a dreary spot), about collars (oldfashioned, stiff ones), about grammar (his is bad). Last week, with a loud, red face, he got dramatic about New Jersey's Governor Edison. For the Governor had signed a bill that hit Hague where it hurt most-the pocketbook...
Actually, there was a great deal besides: the profound routines of motherhood and child raising (which Author Whipple does hardly better than average), her friend ship with mousy-haired Willie (which she does excellently), her whole life as a member of a Mormon community during its first intense decades...
...become a household classic. Most of its readers will probably be mothers, and they will have every reason to enjoy themselves. For non-mothers, the book has interest too. Representing some of the world's greatest writers and some of the worst, it shows how the idea of motherhood affected them...