Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good old days when the children of the family were called Charlie, Maisie, Frankie and Johnny, I was christened Frances but called Fanny. What has been my consternation and embarrassment to hear this name constantly misused, particularly at present by a noisy neighbor calling to her recalcitrant child, "Frederick H. Jr., come in at once or I shall spank your little Fanny!" I shall be glad, indeed, to serve as Regional Secretary for a chapter of a Society for the Prevention of the misuse of the name "Fanny." It might prove simpler, however, to have the "Fanny chapters" a subsidiary...
...hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large or fabulous reward...
...Lindbergh case was heard when it was revealed that he had filed suit against Mrs. Mary Macfadden, divorced wife of Publisher Macfadden (and mother of his five daughters), for allegedly accusing him not merely of making editorial capital of the case, but of actually conspiring to steal the Lindbergh child. Asking $150,000 for libel, Mr. Oursler announced that this fantastic charge was contained in a long rigmarole which Mrs. Macfadden allegedly wrote and dispatched last June to New Jersey's harried Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. The editor's lawyers complained that...
...much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When presented to the assembled retailers for approval, it raised a terrific ruckus...
Although he was in Dover, O. the son of who traveled and vaudeville. His J. C. Nugent, is it when he is not on Broadway motion pictures. been a child actor honorable Keith- circuit, so he today to starring in productions...