Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word of this did Franklin Roosevelt allow to creep into his public utterances. Business has never been the favorite child in his political family. That place has been, reserved for Business' weaker brother, the underprivileged "one third" of the U. S. population ("ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished"). The President was at pains not to show any signs of changed feelings...
...pictures bore no resemblance to the popular caricature of child prodigies with spectacles and top-heavy craniums. More handsome than the average, Speyer's merry-faced youngsters were shown running and laughing like the perennially peptic urchins in magazine advertisements. Only their activities were unusual-playing chess, repairing engines, writing poetry, composing music, reading heavy volumes...
...most cases they were the parents' only child, a characteristic phenomenon among bright children, says Dr. Hollingworth. Many of them had not struck their parents as remarkable. Nor had they been particularly noted by their teachers, who observed only that, from having skipped grades, they were two or three years younger than their classmates. One 8-year-old lad, who had developed from the age of four a gift for drawing maps, had long been in conflict with his teacher over his habit of drawing them in the classroom after he finished his lessons. Said he: "When the teacher...
...when the children flash bits of unfamiliar information on them, the pupils are covering the regular school curriculum (minus reading, in which they need no instruction) in one-half the normal time. Thus they are free to spend the rest of the day investigating things the elementary public-school child seldom learns-French, poetry, music appreciation (via radio) and are doing independent research into such common aspects of civilization as lighting, transportation. Ninety per cent read newspapers daily, discourse on the Chinese war and the Roosevelt fiscal policy...
...wrecks, and then gone home that evening to have his own broken collarbone set with no other analgesic than a glass of whiskey. It is also typical that he is a firm believer in all Americanisms save the New Deal, 32° Mason and an absolute sucker for any child...