Word: childing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Broderick Crawford. 210-lb. ex-football player, son of Comedienne Helen Broderick. Built up into a hulking, shuffling imbecile by means of four-inch shoes and padded shoulders, Crawford won sympathy for a monstrous character, playing Lennie as a pathetic giant who kills as innocently as an unintentionally offending child. Next to Crawford's goosefleshy characterization, that of Actor Hamilton as Candy came closest to the realism Author Steinbeck strove...
...London dinner guests, the Earl of Mansfield, reputable British ornithologist, told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...because he had difficulty reading financial pages and stock tables, an actor who could not read his lines, an engineer who could read nothing but his technical jargon; a young reading-cripple with a high I. Q., who walked in. sat down and calmly announced: "I am a problem child. I must not be excited." After a few weeks of training the banker could get through his financial pages, the engineer could read 550 words a minute of general literature, a secretary who had never read a book of her own accord had read four, including Gone With the Wind...
...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...
Frampton Mansell munitions manufacturer, art patron, bachelor, a snappy dresser who cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny...