Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka...
...county families" they were long and well acquainted. The late James Roosevelt, older half-brother of Franklin, married Helen Astor, and her nephew, Vincent, knew James as "Uncle Rosie." Vincent, born in 1891, was nearly ten years younger than Franklin so that, although they knew each other from childhood, they were not at that time good friends. From 1907 on, while Vincent, an ungainly boy, was still in school at Newport, Franklin Roosevelt was already a budding young lawyer, working for the Manhattan firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with...
...Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit," Scamper is screwed more tightly to possibility, will please modern children with its modern setting. Better than the text grown-ups will like Mrs. Marjorie Flack Larsson's illustrations-water-colors and sketches with the low-to-the-ground perspective of childhood, showing Scamper skidding on the deck of the Sequoia, racing over the Mount Vernon lawn, traveling in Mrs. Roosevelt's knitting...
...ideas. Nationalism and it is almost synonymous with liberalism being Ronsseauistic and Romantic in its origins, is fundamentally contradictory; that is to say that the ideals contained in the nationalist conception are inevitably overwhelmed by the real, just as Rousseau after a long essay on the beauty of pure childhood announces that he has just placed one of his children in an orphanage. In the same way nationalism starts as the doctrine of the brotherhood of man and finally culminates in integral Fascism and inevitable...
...American Journal of Sur gery*: "Categorically speaking, the mortality in appendicitis is not usually the mortality of appendicitis itself; it is usually the mortality of unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that follow upon and are induced by these two things." But for childhood and old age this generality does not hold. Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes...