Word: girl-child
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Christian white citizens of Seattle, who tut-tutted when their Miss Nancy Ann Miller mated with an Indian potentate (TIME, March 12), were not a little stirred last week when she gave birth to a girl-child of swarthy skin, jet black hair and beady brown eyes. Since the event was somewhat premature, the babe's father, Sir Tokuji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, was suddenly obliged to break off playing baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera, whence he rushed to his wife's bedside at St. Germain, near Paris, arriving just in time. Though naturally disappointed that...
...bright eyed, tousled girl-child was seen to clamber up an iron lamp post in the Square of Julius Caesar at Milan last week. The King, her king was coming, and she wanted to see. Round about and beneath her surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already...
...Julius Caesar trembled as if a giant had stamped. Clouds of dust surged up over the crowd and cloaked for an instant the awful tragedy which had occurred. A bomb, planted in the base of the lamp post had exploded. Merciless because inanimate it had blown the laughing girl-child so utterly to atoms that afterwards only her left hand could be found, and identified by a thin, cheap ring...
...play in which a girl-child urged a man of forty-five to deflower her. (The Glass Slipper...