Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child of six, the assistance offered her by Wilkie Collins on the occasion of her elopement at the age of 16 with E. M. Ward, R.A., also an artist, her stay at Windsor Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess Beatrice. The great painters of the mid-Victorian days she knew as young men-Millais, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, and among her intimate acquaintances in the field of literature were those household giants, Dickens and Thackeray. Her grandfather and uncle were R.A.'s and her father was one of the most famed...
Shortly after the Bulletin had descended upon Manhattan, the stork brought another infant, a real surprise, for the general public had only one day's notice of its coming. It was the Daily Mirror. Like all good mirrors, it presented almost a perfect image. In this case it was an almost perfect image of the Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, the Daily News. Their outward semblances varied only to the discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines...
...attained." Amid great excitement, division was taken and resulted in a vote of 300 to 252 votes in favor of the Government. House of Lords. After days of argument the law lords of the House of Lords* reversed a decision of the Court of Appeals and declared that the infant son of Hon. Mrs. John Hugo Russell, divorced wife of the heir of Baron Ampthill, was legitimate, could succeed to the Ampthill Barony and take his seat in the House of Lords. The divorce decree granted to the Hon. John Hugo Russell was automatically rescinded...
...highest infant mortality rate for 1923 (117) was for cities of South Carolina, and the lowest (51) for rural districts of Utah and the cities of Washington...
...Massey, '15, the director, and the actors and technical staff have done their work well. Miss Frances Hyde, in the very difficult part of the heroine, who lives for centuries, beside whom the 60 year old Countess of our own best-seller, "Black Oxen", is a mere babbling infant, brings to the role the voice and the intelligence that it demands. D. D. Driscoll, '26, as Dr. Kolonaty, and Edwards Sanchez, '26, as Baron Pruss, give really delightful characterizations. Both have the rare quality of distinction. Mr. Driscoll possesses the vitality and driving power which is always thrice welcome...