Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packing nail which he had gulped down 18 months ago. Unless it came out, Australian doctors agreed, Baby Rodgers' days were numbered. Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail would be removed gratis. Soon Kelvin Arthur Rodgers and his pleasant young mother, wife of a $20-a-week mechanic, were on their way (TIME, June...
...American Pioneer Line provided free passage for child and mother. Philanthropist Sir Charles Conibere of Melbourne put up the cash for incidental expenses on the 106-day round trip. Schoolchildren chipped in. The U. S. waived immigration restrictions. Surrounded by reporters, Baby Rodgers arrived in Manhattan, pronounced the U. S. "okey-dokey," was whisked off by the Y. W. C. A. to Philadelphia where, in the strict privacy of Dr. Jackson's operating room, the nail was withdrawn from his lung in seven minutes...
...rate. "A willingness to sacrifice to have more children and to give them home Christian training is fundamental to an efficient church. . . . We old fellows can go to hell without affecting posterity, but the habits of our children are of the utmost importance. A parent begins to take his child to the movies when the youngster is 4 years old and then wonders why the child is queer when reaching the age of 16. . . . We must encourage our mem bers to be more virile, spiritually, physically and mentally. This requires taking a firm stand against liquor, gambling, late parties, questionable...
Margaret, Carnegie's only child, whom he called "Baba" and for whom he built Skibo Castle in Scotland, married Roswell Miller Jr. in 1919, when she was 22, he 24 and a Princeton undergraduate (Class of 1921). He was considered "an active man," theirs "a natural healthy union." They have four children-Louise C., Barbara, Margaret, Roswell III. Mr. Miller maintains a real-estate office in midtown Manhattan and a home adjacent to the garden of the Carnegie Fifth Avenue mansion. After Carnegie gave $190,000,000 to various philanthropies, $125,000,000 to the Carnegie Corporation...
...pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child clinging to his chin...