Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors have secured an imposing list of talent to enrich their little brain child. There are bawdy cartoons by the leading New Yorker and Esquire artists, articles by Philip Wylie, Rex Stout, and poems by William Rose Benet, Leonard Bacon and Ogden Nash; and one act plays by Hervey Allen and Marc Connelly. The subject matter runs the gamut of the privy and bedroom school of expression...
...remarkable feats of Johnny and Florie have taught ambitious parents to listen with respect when Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw speaks on baby training. In the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute, Assistant Director McGraw took two pairs of identical twins, turned one member of each pair into a prodigy of confidence and skill (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933 et seq.). Last week pretty, inventive Dr. McGraw told members of Manhattan's Town Hall Club about a new twist in her campaign for brighter babies...
Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
Divorced. John Hugo Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill, 39; by Lady Ampthill, the former Christabel Hart; after 13 years of litigation; in London. Grounds: misconduct. To Lady Ampthill was awarded custody of their child, the Hon. Geoffrey Erskine Russell, whose paternity, denied by Lord Ampthill, was established by the House of Lords after Lady Ampthill had testified that her husband had once paid a somnambulant visit to her bedchamber...
...blondes, redheads and brunettes and wanted something different," Frank Polhamius, 28, applied for a license to marry Nadine Snow, 24, whose hair is bluish, and produced an agreement signed by her not to dye her hair for at least two years or until their first child is born...