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Life Begins (Warner) is a surprising production for a medium in which even the picture of a stork or of a cabbage patch was once considered too outspoken. It is Grand Hotel in an obstetrical ward???the principal members of its cast are seven expectant mothers, one of them equipped with twins. The old theme of a father waiting for his child to be born is only the springboard episode for Life Begins. Before the main plot develops, the audience has heard the moans of the "labor room," seen a pregnant woman of the world (Glenda Farrell) drink whiskey from...
...DRUM?Lynd Ward???Cape & Smith...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward???Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...
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