Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal merely age-old attempt to check dwindling Income by drafts on Capital. Age-old result should be due fairly soon now, and will doubtless be styled the New Mother-Hubbardism...
Squire Spencer's quarrel with his neighbor dates from the 1932 campaign, when Squire Roosevelt began publicly calling his mother's house "Krum Elbow." After election the U. S. Geodetic Survey hastily named it so on official maps. Mr. Spencer insisted that his family place had always borne that name, a claim which the President's mother supported. The real name of the Roosevelt estate, says Mr. Spencer grimly, is "Crooks' Delight," after a British merchant who once owned...
...Because the most important part, the "administrative statute," describing how and by whom the law was to be enforced, was not published. The statute as published merely gave general promises of: 1) recognition and protection of nationality according to the subjects' mother tongue; 2) the principle of proportioning the allotment of State jobs, legislative representation and the expenditure of State funds to each nationality according to its numbers; 3) self-administration of the educational system by the nationalities...
Pausing in their eager, pathetic quest for a happy, permanent roost, Mother Carey's cinema chicks scratch up a few adventures that were not of Mrs. Wiggin's planting, but whatever they unearth is homey stuff. Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over...
When Eula Herbert of Chacahoula, La. was eight years old her mother stopped lengthening her dresses. At 14, Eula was still the same size: height not quite four feet, weight 52 pounds. Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly...