Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scranton. Forty-eight-year-old Chen, like 60-year-old Chiang, was born in Chekiang province. Of eight brothers, only he and Chen Kuo-fu (eight years older and now the serene, tuberculous director of the powerful Farmers' Bank of China) are still alive. Chen's childhood was poor and insecure. But among Chen's kin was an uncle, doughty Chen Chi-mei, revolutionary general and patron of young Chiang Kaishek. On his deathbed, Uncle Chen summoned Chiang...
...pungent eucalyptus leaves in their huts to keep out the sandfly. They also dose themselves with red wine and water in which corn silk has been boiled. Neither measure does much good. The natives appear to survive mainly because those who live through a mild form of verruga in childhood develop immunity...
...Columbus, Ohio, the Camp Fire Girls joined the battle. Their president, Mrs. James C. Parker, termed radio's children's hours an "unforgivable exploitation of childhood...
...defense for Mrs. E. . . . I heartily agree that children are little brats and that having the unsolicited job of caring for them is frustrating, to say the least. I know, because I happen to have one who is unusually sweet and well-mannered by most standards of childhood behavior...
...Elizabeth blossomed as she never had in the back row. Reporters called her a natural, and radiomen crooned in delight when, at the end of her first broadcast, she ad-libbed a homey little touch by asking Margaret to say goodnight to the British evacuees abroad. Stage-struck from childhood, and on her own at last, Elizabeth was in her element, even if she did sometimes take her duties too seriously. On one dreadful occasion, when she was invited to review the graduating class at a famous officers' training school, Elizabeth had promptly pointed out an unshined buckle...