Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their best to entertain the 1,000 strange guests, some of whom actually laughed before they went away to brood. "We estimate that 70% of the people who consult us ultimately decide against suicide." said the Advisory Centre's quiet, kindly secretary. "It seems to be in mutual comparison of their troubles that our clients profit most. So many think their own fate unbearable, only to learn that it is better than that of others they meet here...
...less majestic theologically, than to achieve that Unity towards which all sects are working. The Pope wants Unity, too, but expects all the sects to "return" to his fold on Rome's terms. The method by which Anglican-Orthodox unity and intercommunion have been sought is one of mutual respect. Each church has long performed acts of hospitality toward the other, such as inviting visiting prelates to officiate at services, or caring temporarily for stranded parishioners of the other faith. After the Lambeth Conference of 1930, where doctrinal differences were threshed thin, a commission to continue threshing was appointed...
...money made in Wall Street, Broker Stebbins invaded Broadway under the name of Laurence Rivers, a character from his favorite book, Malet's The Gateless Barrier. His first two productions. Merry Andrew and Maggie, The Magnificent, were both failures, though not expensive ones. Then came a fortunate meeting. A mutual friend introduced Producer Stebbins and Marc Connelly, onetime newspaper man and co-author with George S. Kaufman of several successful plays (Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton of the Movies). Writer Connelly was trying to sell a play he had written around some Negro stories by Roark Bradford. Producer Stebbins read...
...orphan, living with her respectable but impoverished uncle and aunt. She was pretty, had imbibed some principles, evolved no real convictions. When she met Dick Pennington, an ordinary, decent, motor-bike-riding young clerk who had been to a third-rate "public school" (U. S.: private), their attraction was mutual and sudden. They married, on very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue...
...when parents are deprived of the custody of the children-these and many another nice question are answered in Getting a Divorce. In South Carolina, though you can get an annulment or a separation, you cannot be divorced. In Maine "spouses are bound indissolubly together in the bonds of mutual infidelity." According to an Iowa decision, "profanity bears much more proximately on the impairment of a woman's health than upon that of a man." In Tennessee "mere acerbity of temper, occasional reproaches, or rude language on the part of the husband toward the wife . . . do not constitute...