Word: diaperer
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Philbert is a horrid-looking infant of prodigious strength and resourcefulness. His face is long and ratlike and his customary costume is diaper, shoes and black socks. He does not speak, but his outrageous behavior usually is explained by his doting mother...
...from an attempt to make it a second Tobacco Road, a sociological study of the hardy and poverty-ridden Anglo-Saxons of North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountain country. So esoteric is the idiom that a glossary is included with the program. "Swivvetty" means nervous; "upscuddle," quarrel; "hippin," diaper; "gaum," disorder; "furriner," any outsider...
...watch Johnny, 17 mos. old. roller-skating through the corridors of Manhattan's Babies Hospital, dressed only in a diaper and shoes, is that institution's favorite daily diversion. Johnny has been roller-skating since last April, which was before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts down inclines, steers around corners. Skating is not Johnny's sole athletic accomplishment. At seven and one-half months he began to practice swimming. Now he can dive and swim under water. Other abilities: climbing up a steeply inclined plank, climbing from a 5-ft. pedestal. Johnny's trainer...
...Warner Brothers). "They say that being a doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes infatuated with...
...Santa Cruz province last week the sky darkened with the smoke of dozens of fires and the air was heavy with a dreadful stench. Down the dusty roads moved interminable flocks of sheep bleating mournfully, to converge in great corrals. In the corrals stood gauchos, their flapping diaper-like chiripa about their legs, swinging pole axes. Each time a sheep fell other gauchos were ready to pile the carcasses on the crackling, reeking bonfires. Thus Santa Cruz sheep ranchers wilfully destroyed 60,000 fine sheep for which they could find no markets...