Word: stillborns
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...publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived children, two husbands named John...
...weeks, is a jazz desert. Art Hodes is undoubtedly good, but Lawrence remains inaccessible except for the hardiest hikers and most jazz-starved enthusiasts. And the commendable plans of a group of Lowell House Freshmen to import bands for series of Saturday afternoon jam sessions are destined to be stillborn unless an angel appears suddenly...
...Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like me to understand." It was "the most complicated monstrosity" Bennett Champ Clark had ever seen...
...babies did not do as well as the mothers. Although many were fine and healthy the average weight (6 Ib. 14 oz.) was below normal. Two were stillborn, three died at birth, four had deformities...
...discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said: "We were going to make the adoption public. . . . We wanted the world to believe until that time that Beulah is ours." In Toronto Mrs. Martin Kenny, 35, mother of 16 (some stillborn), who told newshawks during Toronto's Stork Derby: "I never felt like this before. . . . I am going to nave eight-like I told you-octopuses" (she later won a $12,500 consolation prize), was arrested last month on charges of setting her house on fire four times in four months...