Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same Ministry also announced that it was demobilizing 100,000 men-all members of the class of 1910 (born 1890), all fathers of four or more children, all 43-year-olds with three children, 45-year-olds with two-so that they could go home and be producers instead of sitting at the front as idle consumers...
...same token of international law which forbids bombing women, children and oldsters, Russia said it was wrong to deprive them of food, fuel, clothing. Russia therefore "declares that it does not agree" to the British contraband list and rules, does not recognize the control port inspection and seizure system, especially since Russian ships and cargoes are State property. "On the strength of the above," Russia reserved the right to claim compensation from Britain for losses incurred. No trace of alarm was shown in London over what one eminent legalist called Russia's "fantastic" position...
Proving as great an improviser as he was once an actor, he has turned the theatre into ad-Liberty Hall. He says anything that comes into his head. When he is well wound up, My Dear Children may bumble on till after midnight. Once a fire engine sounded in the street. Sang out Barrymore: "I hope they get to the fire in time." Once he saw Ned Sparks in the audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give...
...theory began to evolve when he noticed a distinction between anthropoid and apish mimicry: children can imitate such actions as shaving and shooting without using razors or guns; but apes cannot, or do not. Père Jousse decided that miming and gesturing came before writing; hieroglyphics, he believed, were not ideograms, but mimograms, representations of significant gestures...
...nothing but cheer for bigger & better special training schools. Through newspaper campaigns and radio programs, the society, which claims such hard-of-hearing, hard-working members as Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Owen D. Young, has 1) pushed the passage of laws in eleven States demanding hearing tests for all school children;* 2) campaigned for routine lipreading classes in all public schools, to give confidence to 3,000,000 hard-of-hearing U. S. children whose eyes are keener than their ears...