Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your writer should have remembered that this infamous murderer was once a little child...
...settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never become king!" As a poet and unproduced playwright, Maria Pia rose dramatically to the occasion: "If my people want me, I am ready...
Holy Cross doctors took X rays which indicated stomach cancer, and incidentally showed a stonelike mass, 6 in. long, in the abdomen. Dr. Edward J. Krol and colleagues decided to remove it. The object, they report in the Illinois Medical Journal, was a lithopedion (stone child), a petrified fetus of three to four months' gestation. The doctors' conclusion: what had troubled Mrs. W. 37 years ago was not the flu but an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized ovum had lodged in one of the Fallopian tubes. As the fetus grew, it burst the tube and escaped into...
Although lithopedia have been known since 1557, this is only the 259th fully authenticated case. In the case of Mrs. W., her death a year and a half after the operation was caused by cancer, had nothing to do with her stone child...
Certain scenes-the Follets watching a Charlie Chaplin movie, young Rufus visiting his great-great grandmother, a colloquy between the child and darkness-are a near-marriage of prose and poetry...