Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month. And somebody had named them José de Jesus and Ana Maria...
...maimed 21,000,000. Its purpose polemic, the film studs its narrative with jaw-jutting shots of Mussolini, pose after pose of Hitler giving an almost epicene version of a Nazi salute, bike most articulate protestants against the way of the world, the makers of The Fight for Peace tell only what they want to tell, but their film hits home with a sickening thud. Some memorable scenes...
...film called College Holiday (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937) she had been kissed in a purely businesslike way by a juvenile named Louis Da Pron. About her private life, she was less explicit. "I am only 17," said she demurely, "and I have to do what my parents tell...
...committee reported that all signs indicate that people's emotions can be trained. The big problem is : in what direction? The committee could not tell what emotional maturity is. Emotional behavior that eliminates tensions in the individual may not please society. "Yet society is not consistent within itself. . . . Socially, it is regarded as a mark of maturity in the United States to hate communism, while in much of Russia the affectively mature hate capitalism." Emotionally mature behavior, concluded Dr. Prescott, must be a compromise between physiological, social and ethical demands...
Smart-looking, Idaho-born Inez Callaway, known to the 3,000,000 readers of New York's tabloid Daily News as Nancy Randolph, last week traveled out to her alma mater at Columbia, Mo., to tell the conferees at Missouri University's Annual Journalism Week what it takes to be a Manhattan society reporter...