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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horton and Allan Jenkins, who, in a touching scene, refuse to leave Al. In the healing air of Maine he recovers his voice, and stays to fall in love with little Miss Sybil Jason and her aunt. Miss Jason is the Warner Brother's stack of chips in the child actress poker game. She is not as pretty as Shirley Temple, nor as pleasantly ugly as Jane Withers, but her singing talents may carry her farther than either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE MET | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...Warburg Room of the Fogg Museum yesterday was hung a full size reproduction of one of the mosaics of the great Byzantine church of Santa Sophia in Constantinople. Filling a lunette over the southwest entrance of the church from the vestibule to the narthex, it represents the Virgin and Child with two emperors, one holding a model of the city, the other a model of the church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...Sociology Department can do only so much unaided. Much it has done and much it can still do internally. But, considered from many points of view, the University is definitely under the obligation to discontinue treating it like a step-child and instead strenuously apply itself to forwarding its progress. Sociology may be a child at present, and not a fully-developed one at that, but every indication points to its being a giant of the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEP-CHILD OR GIANT | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

...Queen, looking very sour for such a sunny spring morning, came trundling across the lawn and stopped under the peach-tree, scowling down at Alice. She looked at the little green book in the grass and snorted, "Child, what trash are you reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

...shouted hoarse applause but society whispered. Nelson was heaped with formal honors and financial rewards, but he and Emma were received nowhere. Nelson's wife formally left him. Before old Sir William died, with his wife holding one hand, Nelson the other, Emma had borne her lover a child. Then came Trafalgar and a hero's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero's Doxy | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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