Word: infantability
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...telephone and asked a specialist wrhat might be the matter with the baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet to the fire and pat her back. ... In time, the disturbing ailment in her 'tummy' removed itself and I had a most peaceful infant who finally fell asleep and was put back in her crib, and I rejoined my guests one and one-half hours after their arrival...
...existence disturbed a number of highly important people, and there were legal battles about her. Now she is going contentedly and quietly about the business of growing into a little girl, and today you probably couldn't even name her." Guessers guessed Helen Hayes MacArthur's "Act of God" infant over whom there was an Actors Equity row (TIME...
...from old rags, sticks and twine, more than $25,000,000 worth of dolls are sold each year. The Depression has made small inroads into doll sales. Centre of the U. S. doll industry is Manhattan's lower West Side where 22.000,000 dolls are made annually. An infant industry (before the War practically all were imported), U. S. dolls are protected by a tariff ranging up to 70%. The business is highly specialized. One of the largest units, Margon Corp., makes only eyes, teeth-&-tongues, voices. Most dolls' hair is mohair or artificial silk, but eye lashes...
...Premier Benito Mussolini has his way, every Italian midwife and doctor must instantly report to health authorities the birth of a deformed infant. The report must state the nature of the deformity, whether caused by accident of conception or delivery. What Premier Mussolini expects to do with and about such birth mishaps, last week's dispatches did not indicate...
...Kresge and Kress chainstores (like his Modern Screen, Modern Romances); 2) it will not be edited by the wife of a famed politician but by "John Martin," editor of John Martin's Book ("The Child's Magazine"); 3) it will not be addressed to parents, with advice on infant-raising, but to readers aged 5 to 8. Explained Publisher Delacorte: "It's supposed to entertain them, not make 'em eat spinach...