Word: cer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always asking her to tea. This nobody denied. In fact Mrs. Brown lee still appeared to have last week a certain fondness for Miss MacMillan. Put on the stand the Premier's grey-haired wife testified : "Vivian was very dear to me. Just like a daughter. She was cer tainly one of my family. She was a normal and healthy girl-a ray of sunshine...
...Parliament. . . . "Democracy is the most difficult form of government because it requires the participation of all the people in the country. . . . The wheels may be creaking, but are you sure the wheels of the coach of state are not creaking in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna? Are you quite cer tain they are not creaking even in the United States? "Dictatorship is like a great beech tree - nice to look at, but nothing grows underneath it. The whole tendency is to squeeze out the competent and independent man and to create a hierarchy of those used to obeying, and when...
...Italian newlyweds. After the names of bride and groom appear twelve blank spaces for the names of their twelve children-a modest estimate, since Il Duce recently gave prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head of the family. ... It is obligatory for her [a wife] to follow him wherever he sees...