Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city festivals as fake tourist atmosphere; they are your chance to see revealed the collective subconscious of the population. Choose a restaurant in a working-class neighborhood; get yourself accepted there as "an unobtrusive bastard in a kindly family." Make love to a neighborhood girl. Don't be squeamish about using keyholes...
...waste of time: sitting in school yards and on curbstones listening to the impromptu songs of rope-skipping kids. Last week, having also collected songs from assistant eavesdroppers from coast to coast, Mrs. Howard was ready to publish her collection. Folk Jingles of American Children.* It is not for squeamish readers. Sample...
...village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...
Significance. To Washington observers who regarded the investigation as a contest between a high-minded oldster (Arthur Morgan), able but unstable, and a purposeful man (David Lilienthal), not too squeamish about the means necessary to promote public ownership in which he heartily believes, shrewd Mr. Lilienthal would have the better of it. Save as a political incident, the investigation appeared important only as it might publicize some lesser known facts about the Government's "widest experiment...
...birth of a baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death among mothers and offspring. Last week The Birth of a Baby was drawing crowds in Minnesota, but the problem of getting the picture past squeamish local censors had delayed its showing in many States, notably New York. At the suggestion of the film's producers, LIFE reproduced 35 pictures from the cinema. The magazine notified its 650,000 subscribers in advance, so that they could decide whether or not to let their children...