Word: natality
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...think for sheer excellence in terseness of writing I have seldom read anything better than your account of Effie Crawford's pre-present and post-natal experiences. The condensation of economic, sociologic, psychologic, and physiologic into those brief paragraphs was indeed masterful...
...reduction of such rabbit oratory to extremely practical terms, Il Duce by decree last week extended to pregnant women workers on Italian farms the same pre-natal benefits he long ago provided for pregnant proletarians in Italian factories...
...learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought a monoplane, and one calm night new to Natal, Brazil while the Spanish Cortes uttered sympathetic cheers. Meanwhile Maria almost spoiled matters by denying that they were engaged. But after writing some signed pieces for Universal Service about what a fine boy Juan was, she changed her mind...
...glad to feel the warm sun on my face again. How happy did the dancing motes seem peopling the sunbeams and seeking out every speck of greyness, all too much in the Tower of late. This morning, also, playful cloudlets sailed across an open heaven; and below the natal earth brought forth many more Spring flowers and fresh odors. Glad indeed was I to be alive and young and my heart open to these earth's treasures...
...They" told Sailor Roosevelt wrong: first clipper to reach San Francisco was the Samuel Russell in 1850. *Route: San Francisco: Macao; Hongkong; Fenang; Delhi; Bagdad; Cairo; Athens; Rome; Marseille; Seville: Tangier, Morocco; Dakar: Senegal: Natal: Brazil: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Miami; Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; San Francisco...