Word: motherhood
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...Motherhood, winner of $1,000, Belgian Anto Carte's study of a peasant girl sitting on a bench and holding her baby, would have been no more than a suave reiteration had its composition been less finely handled, its line less precisely firm...
Soon epithets rang and adjectives cooed, as MM. les Deputés expounded their grand theme: The Sanctity of Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when...
Fatherhood. As girls are schooled for wifehood and motherhood, so let boys be taught home economics and become better husbands, better fathers. So urged Essie L. Elliott, home economist of Los Angeles...
Pauline Manford shifts the gears, steers the lives of all the others. A woman whose day is divided into minute portions, at the same time a member of the Motherhood League and the Birth Control Society, she makes activity an aim in itself...
Lately she undertook the responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood. She wrote Falling Seeds in a deserted monastery outside of Florence (Italy), in an opposite wing of which, her husband, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., able Princeton ('23) baritone (son of the author of What Bird Is That? and many another ornithological classic), was exercising for grand opera...