Word: motherhood
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...that the present Queen Wilhelmina was once heard to exclaim with girlish penitence. "Oh, I've been naughty again! Mother says so with her eyes." Queen Mother Emma. The death of King Willem (1890) and the ascension of Queen Wilhelmina reduced Widow Emma to the obscurity of Queen Motherhood. Withdrawing to her own palace, she placidly watched while the high spirits of Queen Wilhelmina were tamed by responsibility until today Her Majesty is addicted to coining and obeying such dull maxims as: "By respecting traditions we honor the Dead, who have created them through toil and labor." Quite tame...
...Grand National Assembly at Angora (new Turkish Capital) rushed through a law whereby infants born in Turkey after Jan. 1, 1929 to foreign parents will be considered Turkish subjects. Probably never before has an Asiatic state dared to enact a law so distasteful to Occidental Motherhood...
...congenitally faulty endocrinal condition that is to something wrong with the various ductless glands of the body, owing to an unfortunate heredity. And this evil inheritance the writers unhesitatingly trace to the prenatal environment. If women are suffering from grave emotional or physical stresses during the period of expectant motherhood the result is an endocrine disturbance which again results in physically and mentally defective offspring, and so at last in the whole calender of crime from petty larceny to murder. And the underlying cause is "feminism"! They make the charge explicitly...
...read your articles on people with much interest. As you say "Names make news." Do you know of any other person with more names than this: When visiting my friend Mrs. Edward Beckford Crane at her winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla., we discussed the duties and pleasures of motherhood. She said to me, Do you realize how many kinds of mother I am: twelve. I enclose you the list she gave...
...with her first-born in her arms, it recalled the days when this lady led the mob of wild, dissatisfied, would-be unsexed women who thought they wanted the franchise. What a different facial expression then and now, it is evident that she has got what she really desired: Motherhood; Finis can now be written to her political activities...