Word: carol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What readers of the NANA story were not told was that Carol Lynn Rowe has been blind since birth. Savs her father...
Dailies which subscribe to the North American Newspaper Alliance were privileged one day last week to publish half a column of disconnected words. Numbering 600, the words comprised the vocabulary of Carol Lynn Rowe, 20-month-old daughter of a Creston, Iowa dentist. Carol thus knew five times as many words as the average baby of her age. Dr. Wendell Johnson of the University of Iowa accorded her an Intelligence Quotient of 165 (normal: 100), called her a prodigy...
Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
That all this should have leaked out of King Carol's closely guarded summer palace was attributed by Rumanians to the fact that businesslike Mme Lupescu will sell anything at a fair price. At the close of last week's parley. Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania announced with dignity and menace: "Mobilization of the Little Entente's armed forces will follow as a matter of course if the [Habsburg] dynasty is re-established in Vienna...