Word: nursemaided
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...Playing nursemaid to children while the parents are out at bridge, acting as pall-bearers at $1.50 a funeral, answering night calls at undertakers' offices, and submitting to blood transfusions at $25. an operation are some of the things to which the Elis have had to resort...
...listed his desires: a policeman's uniform, badge and club, a wagon and a "train engine-a big one." Peggy Anne wanted "a very big doll," several smaller ones and a wagon. Their six-month-old sister Joan, who had arrived in Washington in the arms of Nursemaid Florence Gehlke (see cut) was not brought out of the White House to express her Christmas wants...
Albert Duke of York, "playing in" as Royal & Ancient golf captain at St. Andrews, Scotland, made a creditable first drive of 200 yds. (Eight years ago his brother Edward of Wales all but whiffed his presidential drive.) Next day York played for fun, was interrupted first by a nursemaid leisurely pushing a perambulator across his course, then by the town dustman trundling his cart...
...called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away to school. He returns and finds his parents vaguely familiar, like the clock on the mantelpiece, and about as interesting as the 1913 volumes of the Atlantic Monthly...
...false patriotism, and an unfair bias on history. Not only is our thought so regulated, but even such intimate matters as our food and living conditions are controlled by laws on milk and heating of homes. In performing its duties as a government, our government should not become a nursemaid...