Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fountain of the Virgin, where once the Blessed Virgin traditionally drew water and washed the swaddling clothes of the Infant Savior, several women were engaged last week in similar tasks when the earthquake came. Although part of the ledge of the holy well crumbled and fell among them none were injured...
Soon epithets rang and adjectives cooed, as MM. les Deputés expounded their grand theme: The Sanctity of Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when...
These opinions were not spoken in London last week, but they were expressed unmistakably at a ball given on Edward of Wales' birthday night by the Duchess of Sutherland. Out of a baby-carriage, wheeled upon the ballroom floor, jumped a woman clad as an infant. She squalled, pretended to be teething, she was the Duchess of Westminster, wife of Britain's reputedly richest landed peer...
...Here, take a snapshot of a young Bolshie," cried Chargé d'Affaires Rosengolz amiably, and pushed his infant son before a photographer's camera...
...provide 500,000,000 catchable fish? There are 291 federal, state and private game-fish hatcheries, turning out an average of 1,100,000,000 infant game fish annually. But infant game fish are prey to their cannibal elders. The loss of infant salmon is 99.77%. What is needed, what Mr. Hoover and his men have proved the value of, is fish nurseries, where infants may become fingerlings. Nurseries increase the infants' survival chances to "about...