Word: swains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning family life in New Ireland: "The selection of a mate is a simplified matter. . . . The young swain (usually about twelve) calls in a love magician . . . [who] casts a spell over the girl. ... If the spell works the girl comes to the man. ... If it doesn't work no fault is found with the magician's services; it is assumed that some enemy magician in another village is casting an evil spirit over the pair to thwart the match...
...mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written by one familiar with nursing practice. It digresses long enough to give a detailed version of a nurse's training. The book is also notable in having as its hero...
Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...
Crew B--Stroke, Colloredo-Mansfeld (Parker): 7, Dickey: 6, Webster: 5, Johnson: 4, Grinnell: 3, Armstrong: 2, Swain: bow, Page: cox, Stebbins...
...ingenue of It's A Wise Child (TIME, Aug. 19) uses it to rid herself of a repulsive fiance. The heroine of Many A Slip adopts it, upon the advice of her mother, to provoke just the opposite effect?a proposal of marriage from a cynical and recalcitrant swain. Once she gets him, she learns that babies do not always come with husbands and is highly embarrassed by the arrival of toy trains, mechanical bunnies, other anticipatory gewgaws. And when her husband learns the truth he makes it very clear that he objects to such fetal fooling. But, child...