Word: infantability
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Newshawks followed Mrs. Harkness upstairs to inspect more closely what was easily Animal of the Year, only a two-months infant but still the first giant panda ever captured alive, safely transported 10,000 mi. from a hollow tree in China's chilly Szechwan Province (TIME, Dec. 7). Opening the hotel windows wide, Mrs. Harkness called for boiling water, proceeded to warm the small creature's nursing bottle of powdered milk, syrup and cod liver...
...made II Duce's conquest of Ethiopia look like the proverbial theft of confections from an infant...
...expected, but rather as a violent artist, never transgressing of course the laws of possibility, demands in the interests of tragedy. At the beginning of "Winterset," a Christ-like radical is shown being condemned by a judge to die for a murder which he did not do, with his infant son in the room, and the three guilty men near at hand. Sixteen years later, by very little more than chance, these strange associates are ironically reunited: the son, a young man inspired by the conviction of his father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge...
...generation that knew the World War as only a faint glimmering on the edge of infant horizons, it is hard to tell the difference between Armistice Day and any other holiday that breaks up class-room routine. The parades, the athletic events, and the glorification of the stars and stripes are as typical of Navy Day or the nineteenth of April as the holiday just past. But unlike the jingoistic sensations that Patriots' Day arouses, the first Armistice Day marked not just the celebration of victory but also the coming of a new spirit of idealism for a war-weary...
Teamed at the University this week with a conventional bit of backstage vicissitude imaginatively dubbed "Sing, Baby, Sing", is an exhilarating anachronism from the days when baby still occasionally meant infant: a bona fide, unblushing Westerner called "The Texas Rangers...