Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of 101 saluting shots, and 2,500 Monegasques began to celebrate. Church bells pealed, teen-agers sang and snake-danced about Monaco's pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...
...lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist, man's head, baby's head...
...gives him a son, he will make that son his heir. Whereupon, since the old man has lost his sexual strength, she proceeds to seduce the young one. Suspecting nothing, the son connives so enthusiastically at his own disinheritance that he wins her heart as he gives her a child. The child is born and everybody is happy, but when the father disinherits the elder son in favor of the younger, the lover begins to doubt the motives of his mistress. Desperate, she proves her love by smothering the baby. Horrified, he tells the sheriff...
...CHILD OF THE REVOLUTION (447 pp.)-Wolfgang Leonhard-Regnery...
Life with Mother. Leonhard is the sort of stylist who would rewrite Alice in Wonderland as The Bourgeois Illusions and Degenerate Fantasies of a British Middle-Class Female Child. He was 13 when his mother, a German Communist and a refugee from Hitler in Sweden, took him to the Soviet Union. There were thousands like them in Moscow. It was 1935, the eve of the Great Purge. Little Wolfgang was lodged, with other foreign youngsters, in Children's Home No. 6, then briefly among Russians in a grim Dotheboys Hall called the Spartak Children's Home. At school...