Word: infante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...health of their young, a house guest in a married home usually seeks to ingratiate himself by his knowing and considerate treatment of the babies with which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...willing to share it. Her mother came to enjoy it a little. There was a prince, too, that she admitted to it. But he wanted possession, immediate and complete, not of the palace but of her. So she emancipated herself again, leaving the others quarreling over possession of her infant son, while she looked back on them safe in the only kind of possession to which she could submit ?self-possession...
...unthinking. That does not mitigate the evil. It constitutes part of the evil, to be sure, but that part against which least can be done directly in the way of remedy. The real offenders are the colleges themselves. Little by little, they have nourished, pampered, milk-fed their lusty infant until--lo! the child is stronger than the parent and threatens to reverse the normal order and rule the household...
Last week A. Atwater Kent, manufacturer of radio apparatus, proposed to substitute for the comic stripper's idea of Sunday night another vision-that of a smiling Mama, Papa, infant, listening to the sounds that issue from an Atwater Kent radio. And the sounds, too, would be different. In place of the comic stripper's unnamable babble, would ring the voices of Louise Homer, Anna Case, Edward Johnson, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Frieda Hempel, the instruments of Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them...
...League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...