Word: infantability
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...weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip of a bulgy, anthropoid infant. Each is signed with the thumbprint of Sculptor Lipchitz...
Little Helper. In Jackson Heights, N.Y., a good provider provided: for his infant's crib, a short-wave transmitter; for his wife, a portable receiver. Result: evenings out, subject to a howl from headquarters...
This move, the infant Council's first official step, is also its most important, and it would be destructive to the whole principle of Plan E to pick a manager from within Cambridge's city limits. What is needed is an experienced administrator, preferably lured away from some other city, who could remain completely detached from the shenanigans at City Hall. A really good man, wisely chosen, would do a lot towards restoring the shattered confidence in Cambridge government. With a local politico as "professional" manager, (even James M. Curley's name has been seriously mentioned for the job), Cambridge...
...before the Confederate privateer Florida ran the Yankee blockade and sailed into Mobile Bay, a wealthy Mobile banker, William Chandler, celebrated the birth of his daughter, Florence Elizabeth. The following year, 1863, William Chandler died and his widow took her infant daughter to Europe. There the mother married a swaggering German cavalry officer, Baron Adolf von Roques. Florrie Chandler grew up as a Europeanized American. She went to school in Germany and France, returned to New York for occasional visits with her maternal grand mother. On one of her transatlantic trips she met James Maybrick, an English cotton broker...
...purely financial. He interested the owners of Willys-Overland (Ward Canaday, G. W. Ritter, others) who put up 200,000 shares of Willys stock and $120,000 in cash. Empire Ordnance bought the old Pencoyd works, rebuilt the plant and renovated its machinery. By September the infant company had spent the $120,000, but it still had no contracts. Since the old days, the munitions business had apparently changed...