Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen was next to Alice now and looking down over her shoulder. "Good heavens, child!" she cried. "Whoever told you such a thing? It doesn't make any more sense than a poem in the Advocate...
Artist Kent's protege is a 25-year-old Alaskan named George Aden Ahgupuk, better known as Twok. As a child in a mission school in northwestern Alaska he was in constant hot water with his teachers for covering valuable sheets of paper with walruses, kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped...
...Hastings, Mich., scorning current attempts to pile thousands of matches on top of beer bottles as "mere child's play" (TIME, Dec. 28), Newsboy Elmer ("Monk") White inserted a match in a cork, stood the match up on a table, laid two yardsticks at right angles on the cork, balanced 36 beer bottles on the yardsticks...
...younger shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers, panic-stricken when one of them gets caught in a machine, storm the locked fire exits...
...Gods (London Film) is based on the triangle of a matinee idol (Sebastian Shaw), his actress wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and a spinster secretary (Miriam Hopkins). When the secretary breaks off her affair with him because his wife is about to have a child, he resolves on that stage-worn device-actually killing his wife when as Othello he is smother ing her as Desdemona. This time, how ever, Desdemona lives to reconquer her Othello...