Word: orphaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which Hanlon thinks might dull her lurid reputation, to adopt a baby, because it scandalizes the lady inspectors from the orphan asylum. When she makes up her mind to run away from it all, there comes into Lola's life, with a suddenness that she fails to find suspicious, something beautiful. He is Gifford Middleton of the Boston Middletons. He tells her that her hair is like a field...
...Peter Christopolus, told him he was to go back to the Boys' Home in Omaha. Later he explained to newshawks : "We gave him his chance and he failed to make the most of it. Too much publicity apparently turned the boy's head." Once more an Omaha orphan in overalls, Peter Christopolus told reporters how he felt: "I did the best I could. I tried to be what they wanted me to be, but I guess I couldn't. ... I don't see how I could be disobedient. They never asked me to do anything...