Word: infantability
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...infant or an elf; I let her choose her books herself, But, since you ask me, I should not Give her a race horse, or a yacht, A billiard table, or a course Of easy lectures on divorce, Though none of these should I describe As dangers to the British tribe. Nor should I draw my child's attention To certain bits I will not mention In Holy Writ, in Shakespeare's plays, And other works of olden days. I should not give her Law Reports (O dear, the things they say in courts...
...canons of the cathedral received the Salus Populi and placed the image on a dais in Michael-angelo's basilica. There, this week, in the presence of some 40 cardinals, more than 200 bishops, Pope Pius XII would fix jewel-studded crowns to the painting, first above the Infant's head, then above the Virgin's, to symbolize the fact that the Roman Catholic Church regards the Virgin as the reigning "Queen of Heaven [and] of all creation...
Comics & Westerns. TV's swarming children's shows are designed to ensnare the growing urchin almost from the moment his infant eyes begin to focus. One of the best shows is reserved for the very youngest: NBC's Ding Dong School, featuring Dr. Frances Horwich and making life easier for mothers and their pre-school young. From here, the moppets are expected to progress by easy stages through Du Mont's Magic Cottage, ABC's Smilin' Ed's Gang to NBC's Pinky Lee Show and the bedlam of Howdy Doody...
...moderately well-to-do coal "and feed merchant. After two years at Hamilton College, he went off to serve in World War I as an infantry lieutenant in France. After the war he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton, settled briefly in Brooklyn with his wife and infant son. Ives had a hard time stretching his $100-a-month salary as a bank clerk to cover the family bills, became an embittered, somewhat radical partisan of the underprivileged. When another bank offered him a better job in upstate Norwich, much of the radicalism rubbed off ("Banking," said Ives last week...
...Tour. The Communists showed off new factories, rattled off health statistics (they have abolished plague, cut the infant death rate from 20% to 4%, they claimed). They invited criticism, were respectfully eager to learn. The delegates asked to see a jail. Inspecting it, they noted, without apparent alarm, that two-thirds of the several thousand inmates were political prisoners, marveled at how hard they worked. "We do not even scold them," said the prison director. Correspondents discovered why: nearly all were under sentence of death, were allowed two years' grace to see whether a prisoner "truly and sincerely would...