Word: babyhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop Rockefeller, 26, fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was initiated last week into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, (which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation...
Born in Poland in 1876, he began to learn the art of music in babyhood, and as a small boy studied with Anton Rubinstein. His career commenced when he was nine years old. Mr. Hofmann has composed music in large and small forms, and has written books on piano playing...
...story deals with the increasing sorrow of an up-from-the-gutter wife who sees the daughter she has raised from babyhood to womanhood won over to the rich, gentlemanly, but alienated husband. At the end, however, there is crowning joy as the mother sees her child achieve in a happy society marriage the prominence she had always longed...
...crowned head in whose honor she deployed last week the Japanese combined fleets of more than 70 potent battle craft, each blazing away the 21-gun salute of an Emperor. This supreme honor Japan paid to a foreigner for the first time when Emperor Kang Te, in his babyhood the last Manchu ruler of China, approached Japan for the first time in his life on the Japanese Emperor's own flagship the Hiyei, his deeply sculptured features impassive beneath his one-star helmet...
...draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling adolescence, "Corky," too, outgrew his infant tricks...