Word: infantability
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...baby. While in labor the girl screamed so loudly that her father heard. He broke in her bedroom door. Believing that the baby was dead and to avoid family disgrace, he picked it up, went outside, dug a foot-deep hole in the frozen earth, placed the naked infant in the grave, covered it with dirt...
...astonished," wrote Dr. Berardinelli in the September American Journal of Surgery, "to see a baby, not quite full term. . . . Though the face was covered with dirt, I found no dirt in the mouth or the nostrils. On holding the infant up in the cold air, it started to cry feebly, moving both the arms and the legs. I rushed into the house with the baby, calling for hot water and warm blankets. In the kitchen, I tied the cord, placed the baby in a warm, bath and cleaned off the brown dirt clinging to the body. In the meantime...
...only way you become a Marbleheader, for as our local newspaper once remarked, in the obituary notice of a gentleman who died in his ninety-second year?"He was not a Marbleheader, as he was born in Danvers, although his parents brought him to this town when an infant six months...
Going hungry for the sake of her infant son, Coralee fainted at a tryout for a part in a revue the great Chardon was producing. Thereafter good fortune came her way in breath-taking abundance. When she accidentally collided with a handsome young South American in the street, he turned out to be a dashing Argentine millionaire-"although taller than they usually are." When she needed groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty...
Since the death of Wisconsin's "Dad" Vail in there has been only one grand old man in rowing, Jim Ten Eyck of Syracuse, now in his 86th year and active in the sport. His son, Young Jim, is coaching the infant Rutgers crew on Raritan. Syracuse, under Ten Eyck, is always a threat...