Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he wins the hand of Harriet Hilliard. A plot like this calls for strong support, and this is not lacking. Eve Arden and Ben Blue do an excellent burlesque of ballroom dancing; the Yacht Club Boys perform capably; Miss Hilliard sings Harry Owens' "Says My Heart"; and a child named Billy Lee does a really remarkable job at the drums...
...Vagabond was sitting at the end of a grey stone pier dangling his legs out over the water's edge like a little boy. In mind he was as happy as the blithest child of ten, for free at last of Divisional he had come down to the seashore to watch the last splashes of paint go on his boat before she went over into the water for another season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors...
Born. To Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Germany's club-footed Propaganda Minister, and Magda Goebbels; their fifth child, a daughter; in Berlin...
...from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned for advice to Grandfather Dr. Morris Hershman. who discovered the tumor. Dr. Hershman shook his head sadly: "As a physician, I believe nature should be allowed to take its course. As a father, and as this child...
...friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory to the cause of Irish revolution, which he laid aside when he became a famous interior decorator. Conveniently for the story, both sons (who also become friends) follow the course laid down for them. Oliver Essex, a beautiful, spoiled child, grows into a handsome snob, treats his doting father like dirt. In spite of that, Essex continues to pamper him. But when Oliver, at 18, wants (and gets) one thing his father never had-a sophisticated beauty named Livia-the Essex-&-son relation blows up, Oliver refuses to return. Meanwhile, Rory...