Word: childing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more...
...often, when baptism is deferred so long, I cannot help but wonder whether there is the slightest chance of the child being Christianly brought up in the church or home. The fact that many persons bring their offspring to be baptized in the same spirit in which they have taken them to be vaccinated reflects a lack of spiritual perception on the part of those parents...
Born. To Dave Garroway, 44, NBC's early-rising telecaster (Today), and Pamela Wilde Garroway, 30, brunette onetime TV production coordinator: a son, their first child, his second, her second; in Manhattan. Name: David Cunningham VIII. Weight...
...Gift of Love (20th Century-Fox). "Don't adopt me," lisps the plain little girl at the orphanage to the lady who has come looking for a foster child. "I don't usually work out." Her eyes are sort of squinty and set a little too close together. Her teeth are pretty scarce. How can the lady resist? Certainly a lot of moviegoers will not be able to. Evelyn Rudie is the most fetching representation of daddy's darling that Hollywood has come up with since Margaret O'Brien retired undefeated as hopscotch champion of Metro...
...first thing he will need, she decides, is somebody to keep him interested in life. Since they have no children, she adopts one. Women know best, of course, so never mind whether the woman in this case is really doing her husband a favor-let alone the child. Still, children are cute, and this one is ever so. But the husband, a brain who does basic research in theoretical physics, does not seem to enjoy living in the same house with a walking edition of Bright Sayings, and it takes a special visitation by the ghost of Lauren Bacall, accompanied...