Word: infantability
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...riddle: what walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, on three toward night? The answer: Man (who crawls as an infant, walks erect in his prime, leans on a stick...
Purity & Prayer. When the Army tried to clamp down a tight censorship on the whole story, the press naturally played it up as a "Mystery Epidemic." Actually, the babies had been stricken by a disease known and feared by every mother. Called epidemic infant diarrhea, or summer diarrhea, it is not uncommon in hospitals and other institutions where newborn infants live in close contact...
...when Manhattan's volcanic, volatile little PM was a red-faced ($2,000,000 deficit) one-year-old, mewling in the arms of its editor-nurse, Ralph Ingersoll, he denned for an interviewer just how Backer Marshall Field felt about the prodigious infant. "Mr. Field," he explained, "compares PM in some ways with the Philharmonic Orchestra. No one thinks of disbanding the Philharmonic merely because it doesn't now support itself...
Jones Street was in need of uplift. It was one of Manhattan's most densely populated blocks, with an infant death rate of 125 to the thousand (compared with a New York City average of 58.7), and it was at the mercy of two notorious adolescent gangs known as the Hudson Dusters and the Gophers. Vice, disease, overcrowded tenements, saloons, no playgrounds-these were the problems of Mrs. Sim's neighbors...
Greenwich House concentrated on improving living conditions first, because, as Mrs. Sim said: "What was the use of bringing art to people who had little soap & water?" Infant care and dental clinics, free milk for babies, diet kitchens, public baths and sports (Gene Tunney did his first boxing in the settlement basement) were added one by one. Over the years, after the soap & water, came the art: a music school, a children's theater, woodcarving, pottery. In 1917 the settlement moved to bigger quarters on Barrow Street. Mrs. Sim agitated for slum clearance, wider streets, parks...