Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue to draw him gently downward until his feet touch the floor. Then she can assist him to drop to hands and knees, and let him creep away for a short distance...
...Presently the mother can vary the procedure by letting him crawl about on the bed first until he nears the edge, whereupon she should turn him face down and help him with his backward slide. He will soon learn to get into the proper position by himself when he sees the edge near...
...same way he should be taught to slide from step to step down the stairway, backward and face downward, and given many careful lessons in climbing upstairs, too, putting a knee up first at each step...
...such intrigues, questioned Miss Stanton, proceed from "the arrogance of a race long accustomed to wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...
Whereupon, M. Champion, the interviewer goes on to relate, began to laugh at the thought of poor backward France, where people are less puritan but more virtuous than in free but dry America. His opinion of modern American literature as compared with French, was likewise not very high...