Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carl Gustav Jung at a Manhattan luncheon of the Students International Union. "Suddenly," he said, "her hand falls slowly to her side. She has thought of the psychology book, and is wondering what its advice would be in this situation. The arm does not raise again, and the poor child is thus deprived of a valuable educational experience...
Twice since their births the Quintuplets have been the subject of physiological reports by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the country doctor who delivered the five little girls. But not until last week's meeting of celebrated U. S. and Canadian child psychologists at Dr. Blatz's St. George's School for Child Study were the Dionne sisters' mentalities and behavior publicly assayed...
...Toronto meeting broke up with a free-for-all argument on the floor regarding the relative effects of heredity and training on children. One virtuoso of the science of child study argued that Marie was smaller and less smart than the others because the "bag of water" which, like a soft shell, encloses a fetus, broke before she was born...
...cheerful joke at the expense of the 250 busy people who had come to his party. Said he: "The data we collected about these children can be used to prove that individuality is due to heredity. The data can also prove that individuality is due to environment. . . ." Whereupon, the child-students proceeded to Callander, where through glass and wire mesh, they could see Y-A-C-E-M in the flesh...
Alda on her contemporaries: (Geraldine Farrar): "She and I were never friends." (Enrico Caruso): "His voice and mine blended so completely that they became one voice. The voice of humanity-male and female-joined into one." (Marion Talley): "If ever a child had a God-given voice, that girl had it. But intelligence about using it? That's something else again." (Maria Jeritza, who she says asked her for voice instruction): "No. You and I are friends now. But if I started to teach you we wouldn't be friends. Let's leave it at that." (Ganna...