Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Librarian Mattie Pearson of Gaffney. She concluded that Scarlet Sister Mary was too promiscuous, even if she was the brainchild of Mrs. Peterkin. Mrs. Pearson saw to it that the book stayed off the public shelves of Gaffney. When Gaffneyans came asking for Scarlet Sister Mary they were told she had been suppressed for immorality...
...ethics of the proceeding seem a little hazy. One wonders whether Pollyanna's creator would be unqualifiedly "glad" at this calm appropriation of her brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn...
...Affairs, Books, Plays, Crimes; and a specialist covers each. The articles will be short and straightforward, easily accessible, giving facts in their simplest shape; and, there will be no editorials. The editors publish their prejudices in the first issue, and thereafter hold their peace. Appropriately, they have christened their brainchild "Time...