Word: parently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to be mother & father who read to the kids. Now any parent with a phonograph in his home and money in his pocket can have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah...
...Times (like many others) now omits "Negro" from its crime-story headlines, the Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors reported last week. Some time ago, the paper had started printing the names of juveniles arrested for vandalism. Result: "A marked decrease in private-property loss through increased parent discipline." Last but hardly least, the Times prints "names of women charging rape if [the] defendant is found not guilty, [thus] providing justifiable protection for men from frustrated women...
Rawhide Jim put Lew to work as a mucker in the mines at Jerome, where he started learning copper the hard way. It was a rough life. Rawhide Jim was still the stern, domineering, iron-willed parent. (He had gone to France for the Red Cross during the war, became such an ardent Francophile that when he came home, he carried his own sack of French croissants whenever he went into a restaurant.) He kept a tight rein on Lew. Peggy hated the life. When a Prescott newsman suggested that Lew run for the state legislature, both Lew and Peggy...
...Clann. When the phoenix of the ancients had lived upwards of 500 years, it retired to await death in the high branches of an oak or palm tree. From there a young phoenix would rise to carry the spent body of his parent to the altar of the sun. By last week Maud Gonne MacBride was 81, bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition...
...group will now publish the magazine under the name of their parent organization, the national American Youth for Democracy, but College distribution of the periodical with the revised masthead must still be approved by Watson's office...