Word: four-year-old
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...years, a horse in Captain Schultz's Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...
...open book" test tried last week was partly an experiment, partly an extension of President Robert M. Hutchins' four-year-old New Plan in which the student gets a degree by taking comprehensive examinations whenever he feels ready. "The student who thoroughly understands the subject," reasoned University authorities, "is not penalized because he forgets a single detail, while the student who does not have a thorough understanding of his subject cannot pass by hasty perusal of his texts and notes." Said Student Chauncey Howard: "It's a good idea. It brings out what you nearly know...
...View, N. Y.-Roma Garrett, 4, is slowly dying of leucemia. . . . Physicians have abandoned hope of saving her life. Union City, N. J.-Theodora Alosio, 4, a victim of leucemia, was gravely ill. The child's life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.-Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back on the table...
Cinemaddicts who do not consider that any performance by a child actress constitutes cruelty to adults may be pleased with the demure wrigglings of four-year-old Shirley Temple. Among other features of Stand Up and Cheer are two U. S. Senators (Mitchell and Durante) who proceed from an argument about the tariff to a slapstick vaudeville tumbling act; a scene in which Stepin Fetchit goes wading in a goldfish bowl hoping to catch a haddock; a pleasing song called "Baby Take...
...take their nudism straight call themselves Amis de Vivre, seclude themselves in the Norman village of Choseville. Less bold French sunlovers belong to the Société Naturiste, retire to the mid-Seine island of Médan ten miles northwest of Paris. There, in a four-year-old bungalow colony called Physiopolis, they disport themselves in brassières and ''modesty belts...