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...Sylvia Thompson's ambition (in real life she is Mrs. Theodore Dunham Luling) to have six children, innumerable friends, no ugly furniture. By last week only two of the children had materialized, but her eight novels were a brood of legitimate offspring most mother-authors would be proud of. Her latest, A Silver Rattle, keeps up the high family average. As in Breakfast in Bed, Author Thompson's narrative method is centrifugal: her story is less a novel than a series of related pictures, not always in chronological order. But for modern readers who are not easily flustered...
...Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The land abounds in fish & game. Over all will brood the watchful care of the U.S. Government...
Lecturing in Brooklyn's Institute of Arts & Sciences, Wallace Havelock Robb, poet and ornithologist of Ontario, who likes to call himself "the St. Francis of Canada, the poet of birdland," showed stereopticon pictures of his conquests over birds. Of a mother plover with her brood of four sitting on his hand, he said: "There is perfect faith there. Don't ask me how I do it. I don't know, and I can't explain. In my sanctuary all the birds . . . know me now, but that plover didn't know me. She just trusted...
...Under the Townsend Plan a diligent shirker with a living mother and father, both 60 years old or more, would be able to retire permanently and support his own rising brood of government guests on the monthly income of his old parents, which would amount to $100 a week. His wife, too, might have living parents also receiving their $400, and on $800 a month the old people would be able to do very well for themselves, their children and their grandchildren...
...knew that even before he was gored Belmonte had such weak legs that he was forced to invent a special technique that made him the darling of the 20 nations that are the Spanish-speaking world. Besides, was he not operating a vast and apparently thriving olive farm and brood ranch in Andalusia...