Word: six-year-old
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...eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent. And he gave early signs of a forceful originality. Reporting Antony...
...rooms a six-year-old boy licked the paper bag the meat had been brought in. His legs were scarcely any larger than a medium-sized dog's leg, and his belly was as large as that of a 130-pound woman's. Suffering from rickets and anemia, his legs were unable to carry him for more than a dozen steps at a time; suffering from malnutrition, his belly was swollen several times its normal size. His face was bony and white. He was starving to death...
...Facts of Life. Dean Gruggs recalls the curiosity of a little child who once questioned her on a delicate matter. "The little dear said to me: 'Miss Gruggs, where did Kitty come from?' Now girls, you should be able to explain that to the little six-year-old as easily as I did. and you will, after Dr. Daisy Bell's lecture...
...pulls his mustache down at the''sides, tapes his eyebrows, cuts his hair back on his forehead. Because he maintains a copper-colored sunburn, he needs little grease paint. He lives at Carpinteria, Calif., 65 miles from Hollywood, likes dabbling with oil paints, owns a six-year-old Schnauzer named Greta who, attended by a trained nurse and Warner Gland's personal physician, last week whelped eight puppies...
...George F. Temple took out a $25,000 accident insurance policy on their six-year-old daughter Shirley Temple. Since wary U. S. insurancemen turned down such a risk on a child, a syndicate of British companies underwrote the policy, put in two special clauses: 1) Cinemactress Temple must not take up arms in defense of her country; 2) the policy will be voided if she meets death or accident while intoxicated...