Word: stoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modernists, behaviorists, say that "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" will teach children to steal pigs. They call "Little Jack Homer" bad-mannered. They say that "The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon" is cruelly improbable. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., herself a child prodigy (she "used a typewriter" at the age of three), has tried to attack Mother Goose constructively by promulgating informative jingles, rhymes that "represent life" (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925). Example...
...Loeb denied these charges and said that Miss Stoner was indulging in a "publicity stunt...
...clue to the previous relations of Mr. Loeb and Miss Stoner was a photograph of Mr. Loeb which remained hanging, last week, above the bed of Miss Stoner...
...least half a volume of quotations from Miss Stoner were printed in metropolitan dailies last week. Among them: "I've got myself into the worst mess of all the messes I've been in. I've lost Bainbridge Colby,* who was my mental mate, given pain to Mother Stoner and must go to court to fight for a bracelet which was given to me. . . . It's taking a long time to live down the child-wonder business and how sick I am of hearing that word...
...Mother Stoner, too, organizer of the World League for the Promotion of Genius,! had something to say: "Poor girl! It is a terrible thing to be in the public eye as a so-called prodigy. No one who has any sense wants to be appearing in the papers...