Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked his way through London University by writing digests of textbooks for lazy classmates; he worked his way through the rest of his life by doing just about the same thing. His courage and intelligence, activated rather than stunned by a drab, lower-middle-class childhood, were touched off by the kind of illumination most characteristic of his day-rationalism...
Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist-writer-artist since everybody's childhood (Wild Animals I Have Known, Two Little Savages), had a good word for the young as he turned 86. He reported that "there are all kinds of youth in this day-mostly good...
...expected Henry to speak his own mind. In childhood he was a puppet of warlords scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
...Sheridan, who was not built for laughs, satisfied a childhood ambition, took a brief fling at clowning with Ringling Bros., in Grand Rapids. Out of her clown clothes she was a much better show...
...other hand, young children are highly susceptible, both relatively and absolutly and there is reason to believe that in highly endemic regions most cases result from infection in early childhood, though frank manifestations frequently do not appear until later in life...