Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cures" & Quacks. Did Freud give up hypnotism too soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
...than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...
...true sweetheart, Nell, has remained unmarried. Now she promises to wait for Johnny and does so, during the months when he is with the Union Army from Chickamauga to Savannah. But when Johnny is wounded, the report gets back that he is dead. Nell marries Garwood and dies in childbirth...
...able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...
...When his innocence is established, he is 80 years old and eager to find a wife and raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where he is killed by a boiler explosion...