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...Brooklyn, neighbors found Mrs. Delia Tully, 73, keeping solitary vigil beside her four-day dead husband-"just waiting." In Kapuskasing, Ontario, neighbors found the three orphan children of Henry Myllmaa keeping solitary house, their father's corpse in the summer kitchen. Explained the children: "Father's been dead six weeks...
...official school records, is 12, not 11; her date of birth was June 17, 1921. Her family are wealthy, but can hardly claim to be "aristocrats among Creeks" in any other sense, for they are not leaders or prominent people in the tribe. The McClish boy is an orphan, so his parents did not "readily give consent" to the marriage. His guardian objected, and would have preferred to have him punished by imprisonment for his act, but the girl's representative's reached the judge first and obtained the marriage order. The boy is known as a degenerate...
Married. Dorothy ("Sunshine") Browning, 19, adopted daughter of Edward W. ("Daddy") Browning. Manhattan realtor and orphan fancier; and Clarence B. Hood, 20, laundryman of Dunn, N. C.; in Manhattan...
...care is guaranteed by the state. Mothers are encouraged to have their children nurtured and trained by the state. Working women, and 70% of Soviet women between the ages of 18 and 45 do work, place their children in day nurseries. Among the Soviets these institutions serve as quotidian orphan asylums. When a woman brings her child to a nursery for keeping while she works, the child is given a physical examination, a bath and a clean uniform. If ill in any way, the child is segregated. All the children have individual towels, drinking cups, tooth brushes. All are taught...
...liquor industry needed anything further to make it feel like an orphan, it came in a remark dropped by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace : "Liquor was legalized primarily as a revenue feature...