Word: babe
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...Edward of Wales should die a bachelor, and if the babe now imminent is a boy, he would become in natural course the 'future King and Emperor...
Facts. His father was a drunkard, his mother a consumptive. But he was a rugged babe when born near Mill Springs, Mo., in 1868. Delirium tremens and Death. as they must to all such drinkers, soon came to his father; his mother sent him away to relatives. When soon after, she died also, the boy overheard the reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge...
...late Mrs. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth's executors opened her safe deposit box in a Boston bank, expected to find some $50,000 worth of jewelry, found less than $3,000 worth...
Montreal Maroons. Terrific shoulderers, the roughest, heaviest team in hockey, the Maroons still have such bruisers as Stewart, Dutton and Babe Siebert in their lineup...
...Swedish and a Protestant, she at first was booed by rural Belgian prudes because she puffed cigarets in public. Mother of a girl-babe, she is tolerably popular...