Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of actor Paul Newman), accepted with grace a suggestion from one of the Harvards that she is a very feminine person indeed. "I could hardly be more feminine than I am at the present," she observed pleasantly. She said she expects her first child in a month...
This is the first book of its kind written for law students. Glueck said he hoped it would stimulate law schools throughout the country to introduce courses "on the mountingly serious problem of child delinquency...
Many an Illinois daily considered the story front-page news. A six-year-old boy in Normal, Ill., had disappeared, and divers were brought in from Chicago to plumb an ice-covered gravel pit that the child usually crossed on the way home from school. But the Bloomington Pantagraph (circ. 39,384) last week steadfastly played the story on page 3. Reason: it was local news (Bloomington and Normal are twin cities), and the Pantagraph never uses local stories on the front page...
...This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development of the child...
...respectfully told him that he "could do things which other men were incapable of doing," Gauguin rushed to his diary and wrote: "I believe Totefa is the first human being in the world who used such words toward me. It was the language of a savage or of a child, for one must be either one of these-must one not?-to imagine that an artist might be a useful human being...