Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 30 of your issue of Dec. 29 you state that "Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy." I was surprised to learn that Mr. Edison had been such a precocious infant. It would not have been so startling had you merely said he started life as a barefoot boy, but a newsboy?that is too much...
...lyrics. But, all in all, the number is a decided success; in fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling against the hirstute breast of her fond and indulging parent, the Harvard Advocate...
...lived have nearly been accomplished. The great work of the Liberals was to free English political life from the craping molds which bound it a hundred years ago. The extension of suffrage to the whole adult population, the release of education from church control, the freeing of the infant giant of industry from the tariff which favored the old hereditary landowners, the solution of the Irish problem these were the triumps of Liberalism. But they are all triumphs of negation. Once its destructive work was completed, Liberalism had no more tasks to turn to: its slogan continued to reiterate...
...instant a boy of twelve who in two months learns German and enough French to carry on conversation holds the stage. But his glory pales beside a youth who has just mastered his fifteenth language, and that Hebrew. Boy chess champions, "little Sampson" Otts, Jackle Coogans, Baby Peggys, infant prodigies...
...When strong popular movements, hostile to American encroachment, have been placed in power, the American government has not hesitated to interfere in a financial and even in a military way. To many Latin Americans is seems that the influence of the United States, at first Intended to protect the infant liberties of small nations, has become a blighting incubus, stifling native development. The swaddling clothes, tenderly wrapped about these small peoples a hundred years ago, have, by natural growth of the protected object, become a straight jacket to cramp their initiative and curtail their liberties. The Monroe Doctrine, which originally...