Word: bassinet
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Citation: "From the bassinet in her mother's dressing room in the theater, to the throne of long-reigning queen of the Drew-Barrymore dynasty, her tour of the hearts of the theater-loving public has been an uninterrupted processional of glory in crescendo...
...maternity floor of St. Anthony's Hospital in Michigan City, Ind., it was a busy Saturday afternoon. Near the end of visiting hours, a knot of a dozen people stood around the window of the nursery; inside, Nurse's Aid Marlene Lubs, 16, was wheeling over one bassinet after another and showing off the babies as their numbers were called by proud fathers or other relatives. Somebody asked for "415-1," which meant James Lawrence Lyons, because his mother was in room 415, bed No. 1. Marlene Lubs did not notice whether...
...lowest, most despicable, most harmful and unethical form of trash. . . As a people we must grow up. . . . We must put behind us that fear of the best and that passion for the mediocre which most Americans cultivate. Comics are the marijuana of the nursery . . . the bane of the bassinet...
...from its mother at birth is a crime against nature, leading to emotional maladjustment of the child. A baby's emotional needs, they say, are greatest at birth; to be healthy and happy it must be cuddled and suckled whenever it feels the urge. The Cornelian goal: a bassinet beside every maternity...
Astromentalists were also delighted to learn that F. W. was only 52 years old and therefore practically in his bassinet. For no Astromentalist went into "voluntary retirement" (the new name for death) before he was 200. "Retirement" was sheer pleasure, anyway; cellular scientists simply reduced the living body, by rapid stages, first from maturity to infancy, then back into a cozy, synthetic womb (complete with umbilical cord), and finally to the stage where the heart of the "retiring" fetus ceased to beat...