Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of anarchy and assassination and rumours of war, infant Poland has successfully passed through the attacks of political measles and whooping-cough, and seems destined to grow up a strong member of the family of nations. Once established it will prove an effectual buffer between the central-European countries--more effective than the Belgium of 1914, because larger and stronger. And if, as has sometimes been claimed the true pessimist is really an optimist because everything will turn out better than he expects, the Daily Mail's correspondent can look forward to seeing in Poland the one hopeful sign...
...almost life-size in the foreground. Alongside the marching column appear the symbolic figures of three women, on an heroic scale, grasping the outstretched hands of the soldiers. In the arms of the foremost, who is dressed in a blue cape and red liberty cap, there lies a slumbering infant. Behind her marches an older figure, her half-veiled face and drooping posture expressive of great sorrow. She bears in one hand a broken sword while her arm is held by two soldiers. The third female figure stands near the center of the panel, in a pose of deflant encouragement...
Apparently the cause of the disturbance, a few infant alligators a yard or so in length, transmitted in the ordinary run of business through the mail found life in a crate in an Ohio post-office somewhat tedious. They escaped and spent most of the rest of the day playing tag around the mail files and chewing broom sticks to whet their appetites. All of which led to their being reduced to the "harmless" stage with one of the few remaining broom-sticks wielded by a doughty mail clerk...
Important light, however, has been thrown upon the subject by the last-born of our Infant Industries, the new American Merchant Marine. In refuting the charge of government bootlegging. Mr. Lasker declared: "I do not believe I speak inadvisably when I state that so long as foreign ships can enter America serving liquor, the lack of that privilege might be the very determining factor in the life or death of the American merchant marine, and that so long as foreign ships are allowed the privilege of entering and departing from American ports serving liquor that same privilege must be allowed...
Doubtless some ambitions candidate for the Ph.D. degree will in due time find amusement and profit in a thorough investigation of the early life of other Infant Industries: until then it is use less to speculate further. But the case of the Merchant Marine remains clear cut. Rocked in the cradle of the deep and nourished with the vintage of better years, this lucky foundling may be expected to pass rapidly from infancy to justy childhood. And who knows but that in a few years' time it may assume the same proportions as did our merchant fleet in the days...