Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June...
...began when Miss Abbott left Hollywood - where she had moved up from bit dancing parts to leads in a few horse operas - to look after her ailing mother. A shameless doll lover, she dressed up a small bisque (ceramic) baby doll for a friend who worked at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Next day she had 450 orders from admiring Met employes. Of her original "Hush-a-bye Baby" model she now says, "it became so popular we had to drop it." It gave her no time for her main idea: to make collections of "storybook dolls" illustrating nursery tales...
...said to have begun in 1902. That year, partially deaf Edward J. de Coppet, senior partner of the Manhattan brokerage house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing amazing...
...bath, stoked & stoked the heater, finally discovered that somebody had tapped the wrong pipe - one of his children came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...
Diminuendo. The throttlebottomry of the Philippine Vice Presidency did not diminish Sergio Osmeña's popularity. He lived his quiet life, while dapper Manuel Quezon, quixotic spendthrift, lover of luxury, danced and entertained at Malacañan Palace and junketed about the world. At press receptions, Osmeña served wine, Quezon hard liquor. Osmeña, born with the Chinese hate for the Jap, held his tongue while Quezon was royally received in Japan. When they ran for re-election in 1941, Osmeña polled a higher vote than Quezon...