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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joachie Hubert, an unemployed Manhattan waiter, believes that a child who steals should be ruthlessly punished. When his 12-year-old son, Joachie Jr., stole $3 from his mother's purse, Joachie Hubert hung a sandwich sign over his son's shoulders, marched with him to school. The sign said: I AM A THIEF. I STOLE MY MOTHER'S MONEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Father and Son | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Cinemactress Maureen ("Tarzan's bride") O'Sullivan and Scenarist John Farrow: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael Damion Farrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...club man, the "C man" from Harvard. He is not the self-indulgent romantic his elder brother was; he is a social realist. Above all he is never indifferent and he thinks of himself only in terms of society as a whole. He is a socialist's dream-child. He bears a striking affinity to the authors of the article their hearts cross the left place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DADDY, YOU'RE WONDERFUL!" | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...interpretation cannot be called a success. It is not only inaccurate; it is synthetic, unreal. The senior, taking his place beside the graduates of other years, is a marked man. He is branded as a conscious intellectual, an affected liberal. And only if the Revolution really comes, will the child of tomorrow look up from these glittering pages, wave his chubby fist in the air and cry, "Daddy, you're wonderful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DADDY, YOU'RE WONDERFUL!" | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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