Word: infante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When newly-elected, oldish President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Philadelphia's gigantic Baldwin Locomotive Works sent $6,965,000 worth of locomotives on credit in July 1919, to the War-torn infant Republic of Poland, his board of directors thought keen level-headed "Sam" Vauclain had forsaken business for his favorite role of philanthropist. They worried. All Europe was financially unbalanced by post War deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive...
...rural Raritan, N. J., last week a Mrs. Joseph Bonini cuddled her child, six weeks. The infant gummed at her wrist watch. The watch slipped loose and into the baby's throat. The baby choked. Came rushing two policemen with a motorcycle and sidecar. Away they rushed over rough roads to a hospital, one in the sidecar holding the child. The motorcycle wiggled; the sidecar lurched; the policeman bounced; the baby shook; and the watch jiggled out of its throat. All was well...
...that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such bulk as only a giant could uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake...
...Americans he has filled the space with a mighty column of American youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries an infant on her left arm and stretches out her right to receive the support of the American soldiers. Behind her, Belgium, a broken sword in her hand, has swooned, and is upheld by other soldiers, while she protects herself partially with the robe of Brittania, a helmeted figure behind...
...regrets exceedingly the error." Guessing that the next news would be Publisher McLean's withdrawal of his million-dollar action, readers of the hard-hitting Record, and of other publications which had touched on the case of Publisher McLean v. Prince de Ligne, transferred their attention elsewhere. Infant Shame. The minimum age at which a person can be embarrassed, shamed and disgraced has never been clearly defined. But up to last week one Theodore W. Purtee, of Cincinnati, considered that a 12-month-old baby was not too young to be embarrassed, shamed, disgraced. A concern used Mr. Purtee...