Word: hildegarde
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...Leopold is a professor of German and a linguistics expert. When his first daughter, Hildegard, was born nine years ago, Professor Leopold immediately started a serious study of her language development. He kept a diary, put down every sound his baby uttered. (Eventually, Hildegard, seeing her father constantly busy with a pencil, asked: "What are you writing?" He replied: "I am taking notes for my work," kept his secret.) Dr. Leopold gave his experiment an unusual twist by teaching Hildegard two languages: from birth he talked to her only in German, his wife only in English...
...Leopold believes that his findings are highly significant, that they upset some old notions. Volume I of his study, published last week, covers Hildegard's development to the age of two. Highlights...
...months Hildegard cooed...
...action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Vacationing on Catalina Island, School-Teacher Hildegard Withers follows her hunch about death in an airplane. Without Oscar Piper by her side, with a casual police and an earthquake to hinder, Miss Withers emerges triumphant. THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, slick lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder...
Married. Florence Hildegard Havemeyer, daughter of Henry O. Havemeyer (railways, copper, sugar) of Mahwah, N. J.; and George Foreman Robinson, son of Richard H. M. Robinson, Manhattan shipping tycoon & naval architect; in Mahwah...