Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, as his contribution to National Child Health Day, Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist of Cornell University Medical College, last week published hints for parents: "Don't keep the child tied to his mother's apron strings. . . . Let him pay for his mistakes. . . . Most people like to be thought out of the common, and if a youngster finds he can acquire a reputation for eccentricity by refusing to take his food or lying down and kicking, he will do so in and out of season. . . . Remember your child is an adult in miniature with an intense emotional life which...
...those tight little Englanders who look upon their colonies in a motherly sort of way, Canada's action in registering independently a treaty at the headquarters of the League will come as a severs, if not unexpected shock. The apron-strings which bind the dominions to the home government have never been pulled too tight, at least not in a hundred, years. But it must be painful to the benevolent conquerors of a large part of the globe to discover such readiness, nay, anxiety to throw off the maternal leading-strings...
They laid Samuel Gompers to rest in a grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown, beside the Hudson. As the coffin was lowered, the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason was dropped upon it. There they left him, not far from the earthly remains of Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold...
...Significance. This volume is a study of the post-natal creation of a human personality. Old Mr. Cane looked like what he ostensibly was- a suburban grocer. Beneath the white apron and the shy, dull face, he had made of his intelligence a realm of power and beauty, impervious to human contempt. His neighbors could not touch the essential power that was in him and which he passed on to his daughter...
During the past week, a number of athletes, of both sexes, paraded Moscow streets. Men with bulging biceps and prominent pectorals walked with equally muscular maidens. The sole costume was a little apron and a red ribbon across the shoulders, bearing the inscription "Down With Shame." Infuriated crowds gave chase and the shameless ones found safety in police protection. The Red authorities said: "Don't do it again...