Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 45,000,000 citizens of Brazil celebrated two anniversaries-their 50th as a Republic, their second as a dictatorship. In honor of the occasion, plump Dictator-President Getulio Vargas proclaimed a paternal decree setting up a national commission for the protection of parents with many children...
...Senhor Vargas has five children...
...Music often conquers children's fears. To get a child to jounce on a board, a Broadoaks teacher pipes a jouncing song...
...Dawdling is no sin: young children usually take from 30 to 40 minutes to eat, 20 to 25 minutes to an hour to fall asleep. It is sometimes all right to feed a child to avoid a scene even after he knows how to feed himself...
...Motherhood which the Major's wife exuded throughout life and continues to symbolize in paint. As he reads the evidence, she snagged him after the death of his first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry's story is mostly about the Major and his times. Son of the founder and first commandant of Fort Dearborn (later Chicago), a handsome soldier and famous engineer, constructor of the then marvelous Western Railroad of Massachusetts, Major Whistler was engaged...