Word: manchild
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax of Tel Aviv's celebration was a parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...
...Dowager Empress is, today, probably more revered than the Empress because she gave birth to four lusty sons, whereas unfortunate Empress Nagako has had no manchild, but instead two girl-babes, one of whom died (TIME March 19). The Dowager Empress, in addition to her superior powers of generating sons of Heaven, possesses a powerful and intuitive mind, not infrequently consulted by the elder statesmen...
Premier Baron Guchi Tanaka is 63; and was, until last week, without an heir. The Baroness Tanaka is still childless, but last week a concubine attached to their household gave birth to a manchild, which Premier Tanaka hastened to recognize as his first and only legitimate son. Soon gladsome friends made the Tanaka mansion buzz with compliments, as they praised the Premier of Japan for taking a step so prudent and timely, in his 63rd year...
...purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...speaks of John's "stupendous revelation of the coming final unfoldment of the great problem of being, the rise and fall of the dragon, the second appearing of Christ as 'a woman clothed with the sun' (Mrs. Eddy), who should bring forth a manchild...