Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young married woman five years out of college ... I disagree with the statement by Wellesley's President Clapp that men & women have the same function as citizens and as members of the community . . . The primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated...
...surprise of the afternoon came when the organization presented Miss Florence Gerrish, house mother of Cabot Hall, with an "R" for skill in spectating. Miss Gerrish also has held the annual jacks tournament championship for two years...
Like other offspring of unhappily married parents, De Maupassant matured too quickly. At the age of nine he was writing to his mother: "I was first in composition and as a reward Madame de X took me to the circus with Papa. It seems she was also rewarding Papa for something, but I don't know what...
Relative Chastity. Guy's doting mother could find no fault with her good-looking son. In her old age she was to recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
...Hemingway and Faulkner, he turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years older than himself) of a law student. After they have hitchhiked, ridden freights and slept in cheap hotels, she writes to her mother, who comes and takes her home, while Richard adventures on through the South. As social history, The Big Cage is sometimes authentic, sometimes unconvincing. As fiction it is notable mainly for Lowry's ability to take sentimental and overworked material and brighten it with a calm and matter...