Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Make a Million, a Southern gal who is $100,000 ahead on a TV quiz show proves to be pregnant by an unknown soldier: to save the show's honor, the girl must be married at once. At once the motor whirs, in dash the characters, and out bounce the gags, off falls the handle. It is pure, dedicated hackwork, with no sign that the authors ever once are writing down. There are two or three good mad situations, a dozen or so funny gags. Topping a helpful cast is Sam Levene, has both a born knack...
This battle of the sexes was not won without a struggle. "Pregnant preachers would be unseemly in the pulpit," said some of the traditionalists when the subject came up at the church convention last year. "Less so than fat, smug male priests," countered the feminists. When the convention vetoed the reform, the press kept up the pressure until Parliament convened a special church assembly of 45 clergymen and 57 laymen to reconsider the matter. When it came to the vote last week, it was 69 to 29 for the women...
...outpouring of Moslem voters stunned the most optimistic Frenchmen. Even in the mountains of Kabylia, once an F.L.N. stronghold, Moslem women swathed in traditional robes waited patiently to cast the first vote of their lives. At Mostaganem, one pregnant Moslem woman defied doctor's orders to take her place in line and produced her baby right in the polling station. In impressive numbers, they voted for De Gaulle...
...Pregnant and ailing with morning sickness, Jamelle Folsom, wife of Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, checked into a Montgomery hospital for treatment. Lumbering soon after her was Kissin' Jim himself, who sagged into a bed and summoned an old friend, Montgomery Advertiser Editor Grover Hall, for a hot scoop. The gubernatorial secret: although father of five by Jamelle (plus two by his late first wife, Sarah), sympathetic Big Jim gets morning sickness every time the lady of the house does. "Damn right," groaned he. Even liquor wouldn...
Hooper Bay: I wrote you about Esther Smith's female trouble. She says a wound is still giving her trouble. Now she's pregnant. Can you recommend anything? Over...