Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immigrant Irish newspaperman, Herbert Croly was the first child adopted into New York City's Ethical Culture Society. Proud, shy, intellectual, Croly suffered agonies of embarrassment interviewing any stranger, virtual torment when impassioned liberals appeared. Despite a soft, almost whispered voice, he dominated liberal gatherings, New Republic luncheons, was deferred to not only by force of intellect but of character. No Robespierre, he had good friends among the Bourbons (one of them was a New York Stock Exchange ex-president). His ideas included a thorny explanation of U. S. history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise...
...biggest political job was given to a man with no political but plenty of military fame, a 37-year-old child of iron named Ettore Muti. Signor Muti marched with Poet-Hero Gabriele D'Annunzio when he seized Fiume in 1919, by 1922 had let enough blood in the province of Ravenna so that it was ready to be healed by Fascism; dropped bombs on Ethiopia and Spain-until, today, his is known as the most decorated chest in medal-rich Italy. He is handsome, slim-waisted, athletic, merciless. If Starace was a panther, he is a tiger...
Born. To Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 23, youngest (with twin brother David Whitmire) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons, assistant publisher of his father's Atlanta Georgian, and Catherine Wood Campbell Hearst, 21: their first child, a daughter, Hearst's fifth grandchild. Weight: 5½ lbs. Name: Catherine Millicent...
Neither her parents nor the art instructors at her progressive schools ever tried to teach Dahlov. She went her own gait, shifting happily about from crayons to lithographs, wood carving to ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them all kept the Zorach household overrun with animals. Her long-suffering family did not even rebel when she brought home a baby skunk, though somehow it escaped during the night...
...Government's worry over the breakdown of its educational system was added another worry-evacuation's cost. The Government pays ten shillings, sixpence a week for each child's keep. Last week, evacuation's bill having risen already to well over $500,000,000, the Ministry of Health was considering imposing a means test, making families that could afford it pay for their children's country board...