Word: diapered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your baby rocked by a Harvard man," seems to be the slogan of a new service inaugurated by the Harvard Student Employment Office. Now Cambridge mothers can leave little Junior to the tender care of Cantab nursemaids. Workers in the baby-tending service, past-masters at the art of diaper-changing, have already watched over a hundred little cherubs. --Yale Daily News...
...citizens of Elwood the Tomato Festival then taking place. This went on until an old gaffer cackled: "Why don't you ask about the most important thing in Elwood-Wendell Willkie? Man and boy I've known him 50 years. I've even got his first diaper. It's down in the First National Bank on display...
...gives birth to a baby. Rough sailors with hearts of Holland Rusk are softened by a Helpless Mite. After shipping this comber of sentiment the story rights itself and moves ahead with almost its old blend of sinister excitement, rather brilliant writing, and psychological veracity. But the diaper sequences are not quite forgivable in an author who can produce the rest of the book...
...great ideologues of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who really had something to say, had said it so clumsily that old Bolsheviks liked to boast that it had taken them a lifetime to understand the third volume of Das Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper-stage dialecticians. Comrade Stalin, densely narcotic in Russian, was practically lethal in English. There remained a library of dull, flimsy, semiliterate pamphlets (many of them translated from Russian via German). Moreover, their authors were constantly falling into doctrinal disfavor...
...women of means and leisure are by now well mobilized to express their war sympathies, chiefly for the Allies, in tangible ways. Apart from help for Finland, which, being financial for the most part, is run by men, and the nationwide weekly bandage-rolling, diaper-hemming sessions of local Red Cross chapters, there are more than a score of war-relief organizations, mostly headquartered in Manhattan. The time has come when no movie star, foreign or domestic, who knows her publicity onions fails to show her war knitting as well as her knees to the news-camera. Example: British Madeleine...