Word: leah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marriage Revealed. Walter White, 56, sparkplug of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and Poppy Cannon, 40, brunette food-editor of Mademoiselle; he for the second time, she for the fourth; on July 6 (his Mexican divorce by Leah Gladys Powell White was announced July 7); in Manhattan...
Divorced. Walter White, 56, author (Rope and Faggot, A Man Called White) and aggressive secretary (since 1931) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; by Leah Gladys White, fiftyish; after 27 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...teach midwives analgesia (relief of pain without complete loss of consciousness). There are still 7,000 out of 17,000 practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than a towel and tell them to pull...
...ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love with David. How can she gain his favor? That she can never be his wife Chinese custom dictates; that she can ever be his concubine Jewish law forbids. Peony decides that she must divert David from Leah, the Jewish girl "fairer than any lily," whom Madame Ezra wishes him to marry, and steer him to Kueilan, an empty-headed Chinese beauty. She succeeds; and the novel's titillating climax comes as she prepares the gorgeous marriage bed for David and Kueilan."Through this wedding night she would...
...against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...