Word: infantability
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Marietta herself got off to a bad start. Abandoned as an infant by her actress mother, she was brought up by a surly innkeeper, ran wild in the small-town streets. When her foster-father grew threatening she took refuge in a convent, graduated from there to the bishop's household. When the bishop, a fine upstanding man, found Marietta's nubility troubling, he married her off to a young coffinmaker. She liked marriage and wanted children but got none; so she went back to the bishop for help. Then she ran away. A year later she turned...
Last August Mrs. Muench and her husband, Dr. Ludwig Muench, announced that she had given birth to a baby, "a gift from God in her time of distress." The enterprising Post-Dispatch produced evidence to show that an infant previously planted in the Muench home in July had subsequently died. The rival Star-Times turned up clues indicating that the "gift of God'' belonged to Anna Ware, not to Mrs. Muench, whose marriage had been childless for 23 years. After a change of venue, Mrs. Muench was acquitted of the kidnapping charge by a jury of farmers...
Experts on infant psychology refused to comment officially on the startling revelations, but one leading authority anonymously states, "It is indeed a sad commentary on the youth of this great institution, that they needs must flee to the vulgar and profane amusements of the mob for relaxation...
...Personal Maid's Secret" with Margaret Lindsay and Ruth Donnelly has a couple of scenes that are really swell. It has, though, the perennial child-one that materially strengthens our conviction that infant movie actors should all be drowned. Incidentally the maid's secret is just what we suspected. It is pleasant not to be disappointed...
...copy of Oct. 21 TIME today, and have just read as far as p. 13 in it. Received quite a shock and am protesting against what I think is an unkind term. The article in question is the one about Mrs. Muench. Very last word. You speak of the infant as "a Pennsylvania servant girl's bastard!" And I ask you-is that nice...