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...serum made from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree, would be born Nov. 15 (TIME, Oct. 30): an announcement by Ex-convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic...
...prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes him try his hand at prophecy again?to his horror he foresees a stillborn babe. When all-loving Agnes presents him with a bouncing boy, he renounces prophecy for good; goes back with her to his home farm to learn again the rustic mystery of making hay, rain or shine. The Clairvoyant is the March choice of the Book League of America. The Author...
...very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby was born prematurely, stillborn. Then Manufacturer Bulgin, villain in tycoon's clothing, an unsuccessful suitor for Susan's hand, rescued them by giving Dick a job but put Susan in a dangerous spot by sending him to a distant factory and keeping him there. Susan successfully repulsed Villain Bulgin's ponderous...
...Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
...moth which she cherishes as a symbol of her belief in life in the chrysalis. When the Hop Dog emerges her vague urge for fulfillment will be realized. For Denise, however, it is never realized. The moth perishes due to her neglect, and her child, her ultimate justification, dies stillborn. Then Horace, in spite of the fact that he is opposed to Catholicism, shows an odd streak of under- standing by having the moribund infant baptised according to the Roman ritual in order that it may be immortalized...