Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today's CRIMSON appears the first offering of The Crime. It is a cold world in which to launch an infant "colyum". The young thing must fend for itself from the first moment of its inky existence. Some critics will look for hidden wisdom between its lines; some will always demand a lofty humor which mellows inwardly but never cracks a smile; and some will even expect the silly young thing to talk sense. But these hypercritical fellows do not count...
...infant is sickly and the chance of its recovery is small. Already it had suffered three or four accidents and achieved only two convalescences. Last week, it was smashed again-the infant which is the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution...
...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...
...sickly infant, with small chance of recovery...
Last week, one Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.* permitted herself to be interviewed by newspaper reporters about a book she was just completing to set forth the "unquestionably" evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles upon infant minds. Mother Goose† herself was the object of Mrs. Stoner's determined attack and the reporters were told, in no uncertain tones, that...