Word: bassinet
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...have the right to milk. The people keep body and soul together with a little rice and vegetables. . . . "Brides can no longer include a tansu [wooden chest of drawers] and a mosquito net in their trousseau, but must be happy with two boxes of senko [incense] and a basket [bassinet...
...State Department, the British Foreign Office, the Vatican Secretariat of State, whom Professor Salvemini regards as a trio of Borgias engaged in a dark plot to strangle Italian democracy in its bassinet...
...oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips a notch, Claudia gravitates to Mother with the velocity of an interplanetary rocket. It is plain that nothing but a miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia with 1) a blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death (from cancer). The double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts...
Action. At 16 weeks he graduates, with a plunge, from his bassinet; at 28 weeks he sits alone, grabs things; at 40 weeks he can pick up a crumb with his fingers; at a year he creeps, hauls himself to his feet; at 15 months he stands alone, builds a tower of two blocks; at two he runs, kicks a ball, builds a tower of six blocks, holds a glass with one hand, hunts for missing toys, turns pages one at a time. At three he likes to solve ball & box puzzles, builds a ten-cube tower, turns sharp corners...
Despite the nation's disappointment, the baby Princess was not neglected last week. Scarcely was her weight, 7¼ pounds, announced than the Lord Chamberlain Admiral Suzeki in elaborate court costume entered the royal nursery, bent over the royal bassinet, and laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime...