Word: babytalk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscious, so that the two intermingled. Many a childhood memory, wish, fear broke through and expressed itself-to the immense comfort of Dr. Pailthorpe's and Mr. Mednikoff's psyches. They were doing in their own way what psychiatrists do in psychoanalysis. Sometimes they happily babbled babytalk. Sometimes they wrote infantile verse. But most of the time they painted surrealist child-paintings...
...finally reappeared last week, 23 years old and slightly heavier about the stern, as a wheedling soubrette whose bad habits included nasal babytalk, semidipsomania and an appetite for carnal misbehavior. Her performance was skillful, as was that of Actress Constance Cummings, but the story-in which the two girls wrangled for the attentions of a young business man who, though he succumbed in turn to both, never seemed much interested in either one-was a trifle of the type which Hollywood now turns out in case-lots. When repulsing the advances of a suave but likeable playboy who employs...
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