Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holloway Prison police doctors examined with interest last week Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart, a small female with hair falling in ringlets down her back, clad in a child's dress reaching barely to her knees...
...police officers Miss Morgan hotly protested: "How can you bring the Princess into this? She is only a little child...
According to the Crown prosecutor, Stuart has been playing with dolls, dressing and talking like a child of 11, systematically perpetrating one of the most successful frauds ever practiced upon Royalty-loving Britons. Still indomitable in her pretense last week, Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart insisted: "My parents were married in Westminster Abbey. I am a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...
...happiness of his ward, Helen Mack. When, after death, he discovers that his plans will result only in decimating the first and stultifying the second he comes back. He has trouble getting through to the living at first, finally finds a doorway open to him-the mind of a child (George Breakston) who is slipping over into his world. Through that youngster he saves the nurseries, keeps Allen Vincent, a nephew with unpleasant characteristics, from marrying Miss Mack, and brings to light an old seduction...
...world of Damon Runyon is no less unique, apart and unreal than that of Lewis Carroll or P. G. Wodehouse. For one thing, it has a language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With Howard Lindsay, Depression's most prosperous collaborator (She Loves Me Not, Anything...