Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pailthorpe-Mednikoff canvases were filled with these symbols. Some of them, such as safety pins, wheels and houses, were easily recognizable as childish carryovers. Others were less simple. Dr. Pailthorpe and Mr. Mednikoff were anxious to explain that this cockscomb meant that the little boy had killed his mother, and that that tree represented father chasing him around behind the house. Some of the symbols were obviously adult, obviously sexual...
...tracks in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a plain, theatre-loving girl with the hair of a Biblical heroine, Edna Ferber got most of her first-hand experience during the six years she spent on Wisconsin newspapers. Since she was 23, she has lived most of the time in hotels with her mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel...
Most exotic: Isamu Noguchi's Radio Nurse, a grilled bakelite face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most horrendous: a lifesize, lifeless woman by Alexander Archipenko. Her name...
...battery-powered radio transmitter sealed in a steel drum attached to a lance which is hooked to the floating carcass after a whale has been killed by harpooners in small boats. It will broadcast on the 600-to-800-metre band an automatically recurring signal so that a mother ship with a direction-finding receiver can track down and recover the catch. Since few household radio receivers tune much higher than 560 metres, the chances of an ordinary radio listener tuning in a dead whale will be slight...
Quebec-born, of a French Canadian mother and an Irish engineer father, ruddy, grey-maned John B. is 45, lives comfortably in suburban Larchmont, N. Y. plans to taper off on radio work to devote his time to developing a fictional sleuth to succeed Chesterton's Father Brown...