Word: motherhood
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...Having found few twins or triplets in the Luck and Dumbreck family trees, Lloyd's waited confidently. Last week Mrs. Dumbreck gave birth to twins; Lucky Luck collected $55000. Many an-other wife urged her husband to bet on her; pius preachermen flayed sinners who gambled on motherhood...
...such rhetoric of adulation heaped upon them, and Washington is quoted as saying that he owed all he was to his mother. But it is a cruel truth that she was chiefly remarkable as a very human, cantankerous old lady, who, from being a fond taskmaster in her early motherhood, evolved into a trial to everybody. She seems to have smoked a pipe incessantly. George never smoked...
...editor, one "E. R. P.", has headed each entry with" a quotation therefrom. One of these quotations appears .twice, being the thought most prominent in the lady's mind: "It is motherhood, not wifehood, that matters." She was an early feminist, having determined upon motherhood and compacted "earnestly" with her lover, a Baron, who drowned returning from Paris in 1763. "Let every woman be a mistress," she wrote, and projected a book on this theme, setting forth the naturalness of parenthood, the superiority of "naturals," the state's duty and the end of bawdry through free love...
Thirty South African college youths, track athletes all, raced for diamonds last week. Ungallant they raced against 120 women, two expectant of motherhood, most clad in running skirts in one piece bathing suits. Raced also some 15,000 professional diamond prospectors. At the crack of a South African police rifle they strained legs, lungs, hearts, in a wild scramble to stake out claims in a newly opened sector of the Transvaal diamond district...
...disputation. It is advanced with the prime intention of promoting study of the family, per se, through the biologist's lens. Consequently it is packed with orderly, unsensational, valuable facts-the cell- scientist's facts on human polygamy, premarital incontinence, celibacy, size of family, optimum ages of motherhood, abortion, divorce, cousins marrying, etc., etc. There is strong meat in it for thoughtful persons, but it is recommended only to readers capable of supplying their own aesthetic and philosophical salt and pepper. Biologists are Communists. They work with the species, disregard the sport. Their imperative is the stuff that...