Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 18-year-old Charlotte Matthiesen told her 16-year-old sweetheart, Donald Carroll, that she was pregnant, they went to a cinema to talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost...
...deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...
...Pregnant: freshmen 21%, seniors 43%, faculty 50%, men 26%, women...
...that question there are three possible answers: 1) life was planted on earth by divine power; 2) life emerged from nonliving matter by some pregnant combination of chemical circumstances; 3) life was transported to earth in meteorites or some other carrier, from somewhere else in the universe. Quite satisfactory to many people is the first answer, which renders further inquiry into the problem superfluous. Most biologists, however, prefer to make a choice between the second and the third...
...Women are a group of New Yorkers, rich, idle, disillusioned. They include a novelist a perennially pregnant matron, a thrice-married dowager, an innocent, and two not-so-innocents. In the dozen episodes that make up the play one sees them moving in their little world, giving their ideas on men and marriage, with servants and hairdressers and mannequins also contributing their distorted little philosophies...