Word: infant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Theatre was more or less a parentless thing. The foster-father, if there was one, was the cast of the Brattle Theatre's stage company, which in those times had only one free night a week. The free night was Monday and it was donated by many to the infant Poets...
...guns in Congress." Dan Reed took a seat at the foot of the table. Behind him, under an ornate gold-leaf mirror, sat another staunch protectionist, Illinois' Republican Representative Noah Mason, his cherub cheeks aglow with excitement. Cried Reed: "I formed my opinion about low tariffs as an infant during the Administration of Grover Cleveland. Yes, I formed my opinions when, gentlemen"-Reed paused to glare around the table-"when, gentlemen, I walked miles and miles to sell a dozen eggs for 10?." His fist crashed down on the table, setting the chandelier above him to tinkling briskly. Illinois...
European Notions. Forest Ranger Nevan McCullough, who was an infant when Roosevelt and Pinchot began the Forest Service, is typical of the new breed of forester-and the old as well. His father, an Irish immigrant who got the conservation bug, was a ranger before him, and his eldest son, a forestry student at the University of Washington, plans to follow the family tradition. McCullough, a wry, wiry man with a grey cowlick and steel-rimmed glasses, is boss of a 164,000-acre tract of the Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington State. He conducts the Government's business...
...home county of York, a Republican couple named their newborn baby George Leader in his honor. (Leader, who cut his own 37th birthday cake the day before, wired the infant: DEAR GEORGE: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS SOME DAY HOW HONORED AND PLEASED I FELT...
Paintings for Gin. Morland started out as an infant prodigy. He was already sketching at three, soon painted spiders that scared the servant girls. At ten he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Beginning at 14, Morland went through seven years of training. He was apprenticed to his father, a twice bankrupt painter and art dealer, locked in an upper room turning out copies of English and Dutch masterpieces which his father sometimes foisted off as originals. But while still a fuzzless youth, Morland started drinking. To keep himself supplied with gin, young Morland secretly painted sexy love scenes, lowered...