Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could understand was her frequent calling for 'Mamma, Mamma,' although her mother had passed to the 'great beyond' some thirty years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she would not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them with a sucking movement. She also would suck the corner of her gown or sheet. She began to soil herself regularly and had to be changed without...
...held the reins. From such a revelation it must not be inferred that the president is the graduate secretary's tool; the emptiness of his offices is often because another activity has occupied most of his attention. There is danger, however, that the president will be a china doll unless he drop outside attachments and concentrate his time in P.B.H. by accepting such labors as the Graduate Secretary would delight in handing over...
...married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning, upon finding the State powerless...
...painted with black stripes revolved steadily under a six foot pair of red lips painted by Artist Man Ray. In other galleries throughout the building were a black felt head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab and a huge board to which were tacked a mousetrap, a pair of baby shoes, a rubber sponge, clothespins...
...York." He was taken up by swank New York socialites and in his honor was held a fancy dress ball that is still the talk of the West Fifties. Mme Dali wore a dress of transparent red paper and a headdress made of boiled lobsters and a doll's head. Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere...