Word: toddler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such amenities as washing machines and parks cheaper because they are used by more people. But, "no expanse of parkland made available by vertical concentration, no crèche on the 18th floor, will make up for the handkerchief of private garden . . . The privileges of ... gathering up a tearful toddler within a few seconds of his tumble at play, of quieting a squabble . . . without leaving the milk to boil over may seem trivial to architects; by mothers they are valued much above communal laundries...
...artist father, Hasan started smearing paint on doors and walls as a toddler. Daytimes, he called for paints and brushes; at bedtime he preferred the lives of famous artists to Mother Goose. When he was five and beginning to develop a style, his family took him along on a trip to Paris; Hasan could hardly be pried away from the museums. Once, in a burst of enthusiasm, he scaled up a pedestal to a Rodin bust, hugged & kissed it. His father was studying with Painter Andre Lhote at that time, and one day he took one of Hasan...
Between them, the stores have so many Santa Clauses in the field that no toddler could fall for the gag any more. Suspicions are bound to be aroused especially when photographers begin popping off flash bulbs while the youngsters are confiding in the big man, CENTER BELOW. The pictures are distributed to the subjects as a reminder tof their visit--at a price. St. Nick wouldn't have wanted it that...
...interview with a toddler is necessarily quite summary, but there are many ways to make it more personal. If Spang or I overhear a mother saying, "Here's Santa now, Maureen," we will usually greet the girl with a joyous, "Oh, I remember you! You're Maureen" There are many other ruses. If a boy has a shirt labelled "Steve," it is safe to assume that that is his name; if a girl wears a Girl Scout beret, we can confidently ask her how she's doing in the troop. If she carries a new pocketbook, we say, "Oh, what...
...part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...