Word: parents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to stay? With the movie box office sagging, the RKO theater chain -parent of the Palace-fervently hoped so. The movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
...concern itself, and try to concern others, are overcrowded classrooms, the shortage of trained teachers, the millions of children who are getting substandard schooling and the confusion in educational goals. The worst problem of all, in the commission's view: in spite of all the efforts of the parent-teacher associations, the public is still doing too little to help...
...Babies can catch emotional upsets as well as colds in the head. A smart parent with sniffles puts on a mask before picking up the baby. Exposures to adult emotions may harm him even more than "a few extra germs." Dr. Dunbar's advice: stop a few seconds outside the nursery door, and calm down...
...each other's bedrooms any time, he denied that at Horsley this led to sex relations, "not if they have been with us for more than a few weeks." Argued Copping's lawyer: "One of the most astonishing features in the case is that not a single parent has been called [by the prosecutor] to say they are dissatisfied with the way the children are treated or that the children have suffered...
Stay-at-Home. At home, with his handsome wife Elizabeth (a sister of ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius***), Trippe is a relaxed and placid parent, a two-Scotches-before-dinner man who likes to hear all about his four children's day in school. The Trippes see little of Manhattan's night life. They usually spend Trippe's off hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once...