Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supervised the deliveries of 100,000 more: "It is not illogical to assume that the conditions of the mind affect the muscles active in childbirth. The best and safest aid to mothers will come when the obstetrician learns how to use suggestion. On occasion I have given a woman small doses of an innocuous substance, assuring her in doing so that the substance would put her to sleep. In such instances the woman actually did go to sleep, pure suggestion taking the place of drugs...
...ready, doctor? Dr. [Morris Edward] Davis thinks there may be a forceps case in the birth room." Dr. DeLee reads the mother's hospital chart, looks up, announces, "Forceps may really be needed. . . . Gentlemen, this is a forceps case. Let us proceed to the amphitheatre." There a woman, asleep under ether, is ready for delivery. Dr. DeLee surveys her, murmurs, "Hm! Looks like a nine-pounder." Swiftly he nicks the woman's vulva so that it will spread and prevent the birth from tearing the perineum. Deftly he inserts the forceps, engages the baby's head, pulls...
...They Were Married (Columbia) begins with a conflict between a divorcee (Mary Astor) and a widower (Melvyn Douglas), who pretend to dislike each other when they find themselves temporarily snowbound in a winter resort, quickly draws into the conflict the woman's small daughter (Edith Fellows), the man's small son (Jackie Moran). Having estranged their elders, the children manage to unite them once more by getting them jailed as suspected kidnappers...
...retained Bruna Castagna, a roly-poly Italian who joined the Metropolitan regulars last winter and was no stranger to New Yorkers who had heard her in the popular-priced Hippodrome performances and in the Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly, rich-voiced woman who sings with authority and acts as if she thoroughly enjoyed being the life of the party. Back as the luckless Don Jose was Armand Tokatyan. for eleven years (1922-33) a leading Metropolitan tenor. Newcomer was pretty little Natalie Bodanskaya, 22, who grew up in a $9-a-month, cold-water...
...record for saddle horses by winning 18 championships in one year. Six years ago Mrs. Dibble purchased a 2,400-lb. cream-&-red coach called Valiant, built 75 years ago in France for the late William Tiffany. Unfortunately Mrs. Dibble's desire to be the first U. S. woman to drive a coach-&-four in competition was discouraged at first by managers who welcomed the contraption to their horse shows...