Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bannisters groceries, the doll a crib. Mrs. Bannister told the Salvation Army worker that it was his by her daughter Marie, but he declined to contribute. This boom-time for the Bannisters ended sharply when the railway worker expressed a desire for a long, close look at his child, whom he thought of by now as Thyra Milton Trites...
...Explained he: "The dogs have two advantages over the men guards. They do not drink my liquor, and they do not fall into slumber so deep that they are useless." While the fourth Mrs. Manville sulked in Manhattan, her husband's new secretary, 23-year-old Dolly ("Honey Child") Goering, presided over the New Rochelle mansion, giggled: "I feel as if I should have a weapon. Against the police dogs, I mean. . . . 1 think Tommy is the most marvelous employer I ever heard of. He's perfect. He's 100%. He's just himself...
...home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard (TIME, Dec. 16). In court last week Dr. Pitzman suddenly confessed what had long been suspected: that he had been redheaded Mrs. Muench's lover, that she had persuaded him that the "Gift of God" baby was theirs...
...Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh, may well rub their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations of Greta Garbo in English vaudeville. As a contract actress at Warners, she has been held in minor roles to permit...
Most of Philadelphia went to his big funeral. Most of the U. S. heard about his will. In it eccentric Stephen Girard, whose only child died in infancy, set aside some $6,000,000, the bulk of his fortune, for a college for "poor male white orphan children," prescribed that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will...