Word: infantability
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...Minister Benito Mussolini to his great office in Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week for one of the Dictator's famed unilateral "discussions." Among the 100 generals fidgeted Crown Prince Umberto Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged Mussolini to a duel. Last week H. R. H. cooled his heels in respectful silence while Il Duce opened the discussion. Though...
...thousands of years human infants in the first year of life have squirmed, kicked, rolled, crawled, gurgled, cried, laughed, panted, sucked, waked, slept and submitted with good humor or bad grace to endless ministrations. For thousands of years all of these doings were of supreme importance only to their mothers and, sometimes, their fathers. But for seven years such typical, normal baby actions have seemed to a kindly and learned man in New Haven to be of supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium...
...request of Queen Mary, who was with King George at Balmoral Castle in Scotland last week, Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, third wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, acted as godmother-by-proxy for Her Majesty at the baptism in London of the infant son and heir of the Marquess of Hamilton...
...music-loving Hungarian steward to a princely house, Franz Liszt was an infant prodigy. When he was 11, deaf old Beethoven is reported to have kissed him for his playing. Liszt's father took him to Paris, where he studied, gave public and private concerts, astounded all comers. He was fair, good-looking, wore long hair. Father Liszt knew what he was talking about when he said: "With you, it is women I am afraid...
...infant mortality was 58.2 per 1,000 live births; 1932's infant mortality...