Word: pram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nurse Helen Lightbody before 10 p.m. when little Prince Charlie was tucked in for the night. On fine days, two daily outings in his pram varied the routine, while morning and evening bath time was usually brightened by a visit from his mother. Tipping the beam at a solid 16 Ib. 8 oz., he was a happy and healthy baby, as was evident from a new batch of photographs released to his admiring public...
...years the Protestants have magnified the effect of their strength by a shrewd drawing of district boundaries, to pile up the votes where they counted the most. The Catholic party bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted...
Last week it bore small fruit when Nurse Helen Maud Rowe took the baby for an outing on a footpath, pushing Elizabeth's old royal-blue pram. Cameras with telephoto lenses clicked furiously. But the pictures showed more pram than prince. Two days later one snapped a picture that showed the top of the prince's head (see cut). Then the royal family requested editors to call off their men. A reporter remonstrated with a lady pressagent at Buck House about the royal family's impregnable reserve. "After all," she retorted, "it is a private matter, really...
Smallest boat was an 8-ft. sailing pram made from a construction kit. It sold for $35 and could be built at home...
...Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...